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| Police in Brazil are being investigated for the possible revenge killings of at least 12 young men who were gunned down in separate incidents on the outskirts of a university town. About 30 people angrily protested over the killings, attacking commuter buses and burning at least three of them. | Police in Brazil are being investigated for the possible revenge killings of at least 12 young men who were gunned down in separate incidents on the outskirts of a university town. About 30 people angrily protested over the killings, attacking commuter buses and burning at least three of them. |
| The wave of killings began on Sunday night and continued into early Monday in Campinas, a city of a million known as the hub of Brazil's tech industry. | The wave of killings began on Sunday night and continued into early Monday in Campinas, a city of a million known as the hub of Brazil's tech industry. |
| The mostly drive-by shootings of the young men occurred within about four hours of one another and came after an off-duty police officer was killed while fighting armed robbers who targeted him as he stopped at a gas station in the same region. | The mostly drive-by shootings of the young men occurred within about four hours of one another and came after an off-duty police officer was killed while fighting armed robbers who targeted him as he stopped at a gas station in the same region. |
| "We're not ruling out executions, revenge nor a fight between criminals," police investigator Licurgo Nunes Costa told the newspaper Estado de S Paulo. "It's a sequence of events in the same region and around the same time, and we have to consider the relationship between the occurrences." | "We're not ruling out executions, revenge nor a fight between criminals," police investigator Licurgo Nunes Costa told the newspaper Estado de S Paulo. "It's a sequence of events in the same region and around the same time, and we have to consider the relationship between the occurrences." |
| Police in Campinas, which is about 60 miles (100km) north-west of Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo, confirmed the homicides took place but would not provide details on the cases. | Police in Campinas, which is about 60 miles (100km) north-west of Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo, confirmed the homicides took place but would not provide details on the cases. |