In 2013, 53,646 people were killed in violent deaths in the city.
After one of them hit him in the head with the butt of his gun, they allowed him to drive off.
In May, a 36-year-old mountain climber was killed after he was shot in the head while trying to reverse his vehicle from an alley inside the Baixada Fluminense shantytown in Rio de Janeiro state.
With the Rio Olympic Games less than a year away, public security has become a real challenge for the government, which is grappling with a high murder rate.
A 70-year-old Brazilian businesswoman has been gunned down by drug traffickers after she and her husband took a wrong route given to them by their cellphone’s navigation application that led them into one of the most dangerous shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro state.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/10/06/inenglish/1444121969_755758.html
