Sao Paulo Murders Mount as Gangs Unleash Violence
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More than 30 people were killed in greater Sao Paulo over the weekend amid police battles with criminal gangs, deepening a monthlong wave of violence that has gripped South America’s largest city and Brazil’s business hub.
Nearly 200 people have been murdered in 2 1/2 weeks in the city of 18 million inhabitants, Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported today. Ninety policemen have been killed since the beginning of the year.