Eloise Dixon, 46, and her husband were looking for water when a language mix-up saw them wrongly directed into Agua SantaBrazilian police have stormed a favela where a British mother was shot twice after taking a wrong turn. Units from the civil and military police swept into Agua Santa and three other slums in the popular tourist beach region of Angra dos Reis, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, early yesterday. Eloise Dixon, 46, and her husband were looking for water when a language mix-up saw them wrongly directed into Agua Santa. She was shot after drug dealers ordered them to leave, and the car in which her three daughters were sitting was riddled with bullet holes. The local prosecutor’s office confirmed that the raids on the favelas, which are run by brutal drug gangs, had helped to gather evidence but denied that the…

Source: The Times August 11, 2017 23:03 UTC