A couple and their three children were told to get out of their car and then shot at they drove through Angra dos Reis, a coastal town 90 miles from Rio de Janeiro, police said CUSTODIO COIMBRA/AFP/GETTYA British woman has been shot by an armed gang after mistakenly driving into a Brazilian favela with her family, local media have reported. A couple and their three children were told to get out of their car and were then shot at as they drove through Angra dos Reis, a coastal town 90 miles from Rio de Janeiro, police said. They were looking for water but were instead directed towards a slum called Água Santa (holy water) which is notorious for drug trafficking and gang violence, according to the newspaper O Globo. “This whole confusion seems to have happened partly because of the language barrier,” Bruno Gilaberte, a local police chief, told the paper. “They ended up driving towards the Água Santa community where…

Source: The Times August 07, 2017 07:52 UTC