Slain woman followed Waze app to wrong street,The brace followed their Waze GPS app, cerebration it would advance them to a touristy access in Niteroi, a ample city-limits beyond the bay from Rio de Janeiro.
Instead, it led them to addition artery of the aforementioned name in Niteroi in one of the city's a lot of belled hole areas. The woman was attempt and killed.
Regina Murmura, 70, a biking abettor who had been application the Waze app while traveling through Niteroi with her 69-year-old husband, Francisco, was dead on Saturday night, according to a Brazilian badge spokesman. The couple's app led them on a baby alley in one of the city's a lot of belled favelas, or hole areas.
Someone opened fire, with 20 bullets hitting the couple's car, the badge agent said. Authorities don't apperceive why, admitting biologic gangs are accustomed in the area.
Francisco Murmura managed to drive away. He was not hospitalized.
Waze said it was "incredibly saddened" by the incident.
"Unfortunately it's harder to anticipate drivers from abyssal to a alarming adjacency if it's the destination they select," said the company, which was developed in Israel and is now endemic by Google. "Citizens who abide in these areas charge to be able to get home."Concerns about GPS, aegis advanced of Olympics
The adventure has aloft apropos over aegis in and about favelas advanced of next year's Olympics in Rio and aswell over the use of GPS apps in a accompaniment area gang-controlled neighborhoods sit next aperture to day-tripper areas.
In the city-limits of Rio alone, about 1.4 actor humans reside in favelas -- or about a fifth of the population. In contempo years, badge accept set up a abiding attendance in dozens of the alarming neighborhoods, but abounding are still controlled by biologic gangs.
Waze said it would accommodated with admiral at the Operations Center in Rio de Janeiro this anniversary "to accept how the city-limits is acclamation the accident of active throughout Rio de Janeiro."
In the case of Niteroi, a Brazilian extra fabricated the aforementioned aberration two months ago, afterward her GPS into the Caramujo favela. She was attempt at, but survived.
Police responded Monday to the latest adventure in Niteroi by affronted Caramujo, trading bullets with assemblage members, according to the badge spokesman. No one was afflicted or arrested, but badge said they accept articular a doubtable in Murmura's killing.
Instead, it led them to addition artery of the aforementioned name in Niteroi in one of the city's a lot of belled hole areas. The woman was attempt and killed.
Regina Murmura, 70, a biking abettor who had been application the Waze app while traveling through Niteroi with her 69-year-old husband, Francisco, was dead on Saturday night, according to a Brazilian badge spokesman. The couple's app led them on a baby alley in one of the city's a lot of belled favelas, or hole areas.
Someone opened fire, with 20 bullets hitting the couple's car, the badge agent said. Authorities don't apperceive why, admitting biologic gangs are accustomed in the area.
Francisco Murmura managed to drive away. He was not hospitalized.
Waze said it was "incredibly saddened" by the incident.
"Unfortunately it's harder to anticipate drivers from abyssal to a alarming adjacency if it's the destination they select," said the company, which was developed in Israel and is now endemic by Google. "Citizens who abide in these areas charge to be able to get home."Concerns about GPS, aegis advanced of Olympics
The adventure has aloft apropos over aegis in and about favelas advanced of next year's Olympics in Rio and aswell over the use of GPS apps in a accompaniment area gang-controlled neighborhoods sit next aperture to day-tripper areas.
In the city-limits of Rio alone, about 1.4 actor humans reside in favelas -- or about a fifth of the population. In contempo years, badge accept set up a abiding attendance in dozens of the alarming neighborhoods, but abounding are still controlled by biologic gangs.
Waze said it would accommodated with admiral at the Operations Center in Rio de Janeiro this anniversary "to accept how the city-limits is acclamation the accident of active throughout Rio de Janeiro."
In the case of Niteroi, a Brazilian extra fabricated the aforementioned aberration two months ago, afterward her GPS into the Caramujo favela. She was attempt at, but survived.
Police responded Monday to the latest adventure in Niteroi by affronted Caramujo, trading bullets with assemblage members, according to the badge spokesman. No one was afflicted or arrested, but badge said they accept articular a doubtable in Murmura's killing.
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