Sao Paulo killings break record

Police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo say this year has been one of the worst on record for mass killings with more than ninety such attacks.

They said four teenagers were found shot dead on Monday, bringing the number of victims of mass killings to three-hundred-and-twelve.

Brazilian police say over the holiday period from Friday to Monday more than one-hundred people were killed across the state of Sao Paulo, forty-one in the metropolitan area.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service