Police in Brazil kill six people a day


So says a report from The Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, an NGO that singles out the Rio police for "abusive use of lethal force."

The report by the Sao Paulo-based body accused Brazilian police of making "abusive use of lethal force".

The study said Rio de Janeiro state had the highest per capita rate of killing.

Some 416 people were killed in the state in 2013, according to the report quoted by the Associated Press news agency.

The study also said 50,806 people had been killed in homicides in Brazil last year – an average of about one person every 10 minutes.

Brazil police kill six people a day – NGO [BBC]

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