Police Struggle to Find Relatives
JOAO PESSOA, Paraiba – Civil Police (PC) are struggling to find relatives of three Finns found dead in a sugarcane field in Pitimbu, Paraiba on Friday. According to Globo TV, police in the north-eastern state, believe that the three were killed elsewhere and their bodies dumped in the field.
The victims had been shot several times each. A Finnish credit card and a small amount of local currency were also found at the scene of the crime. The couple owned a house in the area. The physicians were retired and from Savonlinna in eastern Finland and their friend was a visiting nurse, according to G1 Paraiba.
Rodolfo Santa Cruz, of the Special Operations Group (GOE) of the Civil Police, told the TV network that a man, 71, and a woman, 68, were physicians, and another woman, 60 was a friend of the couple. They arrived in Paraiba on November 21. Their names were not released pending the notification of next of kin.
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When is the local government doing something to protect tourists from crimes like this?
ReplyDeleteOK, it's free publicity, and I've seen it in most large international newspapers all over the world.
But is this really the international press they want?
This kind of crime 'kills' many, many years of hard-work by PBtur and others.
Do something about it!!