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Angry mourners demand 'justice' over Brazil military shooting
BY ALLISON JACKSON (AFP) 5 HOURS AGO
Anguish mixed with anger at the funeral Wednesday of a Brazilian musician shot dead by soldiers in Rio de Janeiro, with mourners blaming far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and the military.
Around 200 family and friends of Evaldo dos Santos Rosa chanted "justice" over and over as his coffin was placed in a crypt not far from where soldiers killed him in a hail of bullets on Sunday as he drove his family to a baby shower in the working-class district of Guadalupe in Rio's north.
Five people were in the white sedan when soldiers -- who the army said had been on the lookout for a car-load of criminals during a regular patrol of the military-controlled area -- riddled the vehicle with 80 bullets, local media reported.
Miraculously, dos Santos's wife, seven-year-old son and a family friend escaped unhurt, but his father-in-law and a bystander were wounded.
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