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UK Tourist Enters Favela and is Shot in Rio’s Angra dos Reis

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Despite the ostensive presence of the armed forces and federal security forces in many places in the state of Rio de Janeiro, an English tourist was wounded in Angra dos Reis, a town a few hours southwest of the capital city, on Sunday when her family’s car entered a favela community by mistake.

According to the Federal Highway Police, the woman was with her husband and three children on the Rio . . .

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