(13 Dec 2024)
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 13 December 2024
1. Various of car driven by Argentinian tourist who was shot, car gunshot marks, blood stains and deployed airbags
2. Crashed car at parking lot of tourist police station
3. Sign reading (English): “Rio Tourist Police” at entrance
4. Sign reading (Portuguese): “Special Tourism Support Station”
5. Various exteriors of Souza Aguiar Municipal Hospital
6. Various of police cars at Candido Oliveira street
7. “Candido Oliveira Street” sign
8. Barricade with steel beams closing half of street
9. Road sign reading (Portuguese): “Morro dos Prazeres Community” next to sign pointing to Corcovado Mountain, the site of the Statue of Christ the Redeemer
10. Various of sign with name of two low-income communities, Escondidinho and Prazeres, to statue of Christ in distance
11. Various of Escondidinho and Prazeres low-income communities
STORYLINE:
An Argentine tourist was shot in the head and chest Thursday in Rio de Janeiro after he mistakenly drove his car into a low-income community, police said.
He was reportedly using a GPS device to make his way to the Christ the Redeemer statue.
Gastón Fernando Burlón, 51, was taken to Hospital Souza Aguiar, where he is in serious condition, according to Rio’s health secretariat.
Burlón is a former tourism secretary for the Argentine city of Bariloche and is the president of the Argentine Chamber of Student Tourism.
Burlón was driving with his wife and daughter through the Morro dos Prazeres, a hillside favela dominated by the criminal gang Red Command, when he was attacked, police said in a statement.
“Preliminary information given by officers in the case suggest that the wounded man was surprised by gunshots made by armed criminals as he mistakenly entered,” police said.
In 2016, Italian tourist Roberto Bardella was killed in the same region after he got lost.
He and his friend Rino Polato, who was found unharmed, were touring South America on motorcycles.
An Argentine tourism ministry official told the Associated Press the country’s government is following the case and has sent a staffer to provide assistance to Burlón and his family.
The source said the medical team is trying to stabilize Burlón so he can undergo surgery.
The source spoke under condition of anonymity due to a lack of authorization to discuss the matter publicly.
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