RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian authorities exhumed the bodies of 19 victims of a 1993 massacre yesterday so that they could be checked for bullets. Forty nine police officers are awaiting trial on charges of shooting 21 inhabitants of a Rio shantytown to avenge the death of four police officers.
Police exhume massacre victims
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian authorities exhumed the bodies of 19 victims of a 1993 massacre yesterday so that they could be checked…
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