SAO PAULO (AP) ? Law enforcement officials say police may have committed up to 30 murders during the recently ended police strike in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia.
An official with the police department's homicide department says 30 of the 180 people murdered during the 12-day strike that ended Saturday were killed execution-style. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.
He says many of the victims were found with their hands handcuffed or tied behind their backs.
He says preliminary investigations and eyewitness reports "lead us to believe that these killings were the work of militias" made up of former or active-duty officers that extort residents and often double as extermination squads.
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