Dead woman shot in casket in Rio, mourners flee

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A dead woman lying in her casket was hit by a stray bullet during a wake in Rio de Janeiro and mourners fled in panic, police said on Wednesday.

The bullet, fired in a shootout between a drug gang and police in a slum adjacent to the cemetery on Tuesday, pierced the casket inside the cemetery’s chapel and got lodged in the corpse’s pelvis. Clenilda da Silva, 49, a babysitter, had died the previous day of a heart attack.

The bullet was not removed before burial.

"This is just too sad. My God, to get shot after death," Extra tabloid newspaper quoted da Silva’s sister, Maria de Lourdes Pereira, as saying. The newspaper said another bullet broke a window in a neighboring chapel and bullet holes could be seen on many trees and cemetery walls.

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[Shell Beau]

1. Not to be ugly, but better it hit her than some

of the people there. However, that is horrible. Can't even have a peaceful funeral.

[Wetzelbill]

2. oh I know

that would be so awful.