The arm was found in the possession of military police man Arlindo Lisboa Afonso Junior when he was arrested for stealing a car on April 15 last. The technical police did not supply the names of the two children killed by the arm. According to the police, Lisboa admitted during interrogation that the gun was used in the Candelaria massacre. According to experts, at least five guns were used on the occasion. At the moment, four people including three military police are in prison accused of having been involved in the massacre.
Traffic is one of the principle health problems in Brazil.
The Brazilian Association of Traffic Medicine states that about one million traffic accidents occur each year in the country. Fifty thousand persons are killed and another three hundred thousand were injured. It is rather co-incidental that the 13th World Congress of the International Association of Accidents and Traffic Medicine is being held in Sao Paulo this week. Sao Paulo has one of the worst traffic records in the world. In the United States, some 50 thousand deaths are caused by traffic accidents.