Italian tourist shot dead after entering Rio slum on motorcycle

[WorldNews]

An Italian tourist traveling South America by motorcycle was shot dead on Thursday after mistakenly entering a hillside slum in Rio de Janeiro. The tourist, identified by police as 52-year-old Roberto Bardella, was sightseeing with an Italian companion, also on motorcycle, when their GPS navigation system led them into a favela, as many of Rio's poor neighborhoods are known. There, a group of armed bandits opened fire on the two travelers, police said, and forced them from their motorcycles.

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