Brazil: 30 puzzling murders

belém - In the northeastern Brazilian city of Belém has occurred between Friday and Saturday a series of thirty mysterious murders.

According to the newspaper Folha de São Paulo is ten times the average daily. In 25 of the cases would involve outright executions. Thus victims were shot while they were chatting in the street with friends.

Brazilian media speculate about a reprisal from the police, because the killings took place just hours after a policeman was killed in a shootout with criminals.

Journalists draw a comparison with what happened in the southern Brazilian city of Londrina last year when after the murder of a policeman ten people were killed and fifteen people were injured.