Six People, Including Three Teens, Massacred in Southern Brazil

  

RIO DE JANEIRO – Six people, including three teenagers, were gunned down Sunday in an inn in Cidreira, a town on the coast of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, a crime thought to be a settling of scores among drug traffickers, authorities said.

The victims were in a room at the inn which apparently was being used by a group of drug traffickers as a sales location, the state Militarized Police said.

Three armed men burst into the room early Sunday morning and began firing indiscriminately at the people inside.

Five of the victims died on the scene and two others were seriously wounded and taken to a hospital in the neighboring city of Tramandai, where one of them died while receiving medical attention.

The attack on the Posada del Celomar occurred about 1 a.m. and police have no clues as to who carried it out.

In the past, police had arrested people being sought for drug crimes at the site of the massacre.

“The majority of the victims, teens who apparently were drug users, were at the wrong place at the wrong time,” a detective told the daily Zero Hora