Three doctors were shot dead in a bar in Rio de Janeiro. They were going to take part in a conference

Three doctors from the city of São Paulo were killed and another seriously wounded early this Thursday morning in a bar in Barra da Tijuca, in the western zone of Rio de Janeiro, where they were attending the International Orthopedic Congress this Thursday. The crime, which occurred shortly after 1:00 and 5:00 this Thursday morning in Lisbon, caused panic among many patrons of the bar, at that time full of doctors from different countries, since it was located right in front of the hotel. Windsor, where most of the convention participants live and where work will take place starting this Thursday.

Rio de Janeiro police still have no clear idea of ​​the motive for the massacre, but said it was clearly an execution, a so-called “mando crime” carried out on the orders of a man who has not yet been identified. Nothing was stolen from the victims or other bar patrons, supporting speculation that the perpetrators intended to kill the doctors who had arrived in town hours earlier.

Witnesses told agents that a white car suddenly stopped next to the bar, several armed men got out and immediately went to a table where four orthopedic surgeons from Sao Paulo were animatedly drinking and chatting, taking advantage of a few hours of leisure before the start. , Congress. Without saying a word, the killers fired countless shots, perhaps dozens, killing three of the four residents of São Paulo and wounding another, who underwent surgery at dawn this Thursday in a hospital in the region.

The killers returned to the car they arrived in and fled without harassing or threatening any of the other customers or bar employees. The doctors killed in this brutal manner ranged in age from 32 to 62 years, and one of them was the director of a famous orthopedic hospital in Sao Paulo.