In a new episode about the innocent victims of the brutal violence that has engulfed Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian city’s metropolitan region, a 14-year-old girl returning from school was seriously shot during an armed standoff between paramilitaries. and street drug dealers in Sao Paulo, Joao de Meriti, Greater Rio de Janeiro. A five-year-old boy was also hit by a shell, but less seriously.
The girl, who was wearing a school uniform and had a backpack on her back, was shot three times, one of them in the head. Members of the public took her to the emergency department (UPA) in the Jardim Iris district and soon after transferred her to the Adán Pereira Núñez hospital in Duque de Caxias, another town in the region known as Baixada Fluminense, given the severity of the situation. about injuries. Sources from the hospital said late on Tuesday that the student’s condition is very serious and she will undergo a delicate operation. The girl arrived at the hospital already intubated and unconscious.
The boy, who received a bullet in the nose, was also taken to the UPA Jardim Iris and then transferred to another department of the hospital in São João de Meriti. But, according to available information, it is not life-threatening.
The two were shot dead on the corner of Rua Cambuchi and Rua Euclides da Cunha as members of the militia, a paramilitary group made up of corrupt police officers and former police officers, were holding a “gathering”. In fact, they extorted money from traders in the region, forcing them to pay for the supposed security the group claimed to provide them.
Drug dealers who dominate the Dikeh and Faisan neighborhoods, rivals of the militia, suddenly arrived on the scene and a violent confrontation ensued that, in addition to injuring two minors, left gunshot wounds on the walls of houses and on several vehicles. Police found pistols, numerous chargers, ammunition belts, grenades and mobile phones in two vehicles used and then abandoned by criminals who collided in the middle of a public road.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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