Brazil Violence Leaves 80 Dead
Andrea Moore - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Sao Paulo, Brazil (AHN) - Armed police are guarding the deserted streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil after four days of gang attacks left more than 80 people dead. The rioting included dozens of attacks on police stations, bars and banks and rebellions in many of Sao Paulo state's corrupt and overcrowded prisons. Police spokeswoman Thais Nunes told The Associated Press that officials fear the violence could spread to Rio de Janeiro, where 40,000 police are on high alert and extra patrols have been dispatched to slums. Globo TV reports there is sporadic violence in other cities in Sao Paulo state, including the killing of a prison guard with 20 shots to the head. The violence erupted with an attempt to isolate leaders of the First Capital Command gang, who control drug trafficking and many of Sao Paulo's prisons, by transferring eight of them last week to a high-security facility in a remote part of Sao Paulo state. Leaders of the gang, known here as the PCC, reportedly used cell phones the next day to order the attacks. Police officers account for many of the dead.
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