Carnival tainted by shootings ahead of main parades

2015/02/15 22:35:47 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

Tens of thousands of people prepared to flood Rio & #039;s streets Sunday to watch dancers wearing dazzlingly exotic outfits expose maximum flesh for the city & #039;s spectacular Carnival parade. An anticipated crowd of more than 70,000, from great-grandmothers to babes in arms, will sway and cheer on their favorite school in hours-long parades in Rio & #039;s annual party to end all parties. In Sao Paulo, web news portal G1 quoted police as saying a man was stabbed to death at a street fest late Saturday, while 10 revelers were injured in an overnight shooting in popular tourist destination Paraty, west of Rio, CBN radio reported. Another shooting saw one person hurt in the northern city of Salvador, which hosts one of Brazil & #039;s most spectacular carnivals.
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