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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Biller and Diarlei Rodrigues

4 doctors were gunned down on a Rio beach and there are suspicions of a political motive

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Four doctors were shot — three of them fatally — beside a beach in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in the early hours of Thursday in what may have been a politically motivated execution.

Security camera footage obtained by local newspaper O Globo showed a group of black-clad gunmen emerging from a car and running up to the victims' beachside table in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood and opening fire.

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