They get out of the cars and shoot wildly in front of the bar: five dead and two wounded

A full-blown ambush recorded by security cameras. It took place yesterday afternoon in Itaborai, in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Men armed to the teeth got out of a car and started shooting wildly at a group sitting at a bar table. Five victims and two injured is the toll.

Among the victims is Wellington Emercik, a former city councilor and former policeman, and perhaps he was the target of the hit men. Relatives said he was having a beer in the company of friends and assured him that "he was not involved in any crime".

Security cameras installed near the ambush scene recorded images of three hitmen shooting, while one of the targets fell in the middle of the road hit by numerous bullets.

It is certainly not the first massacre of its kind in Rio, a city with a strong presence of drug traffickers and paramilitary militias.

(Unioneonline / L)