2012年2月14日星期二

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Brazil police may have killed 30 during strike (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 01:07 PM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012, morgue workers remove the body of a man killed during a shooting in the Itinga neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil. A police strike and a resulting wave of violence is scaring off visitors to Brazil's third-largest city. Police demanding better pay and benefits walked off the job in the northeastern state of Bahia more than a week ago, doubling the number of murders and flooding Brazilian airwaves with alarming footage of looted banks and businesses. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - Current and former police officers may have committed up to 30 murders during the recently ended police strike in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, law enforcement officials there said.


Police strike ends in Rio de Janeiro (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 05:39 PM PST

AP - A police strike in Rio de Janeiro ended Monday just days before the city explodes in chaos for the world's biggest Carnival bash.
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