Brazil Killing Spree Leaves 12 Dead

A five-hour killing rampage in Brazil’s southeastern city of Campinas has left 12 people dead.

The victims were gunned down in several separate incidents on the outskirts of the city, in what Brazilian media said appeared to be execution-style killings.

Authorities say they are looking into all possibilities, including whether the killings were gang-related.

But they also say the timing and location of the shootings add weight to a theory that they were revenge killings carried out by the police.

The slayings occurred between Sunday night and Monday morning, just hours after an off-duty military police officer, Arides Luiz dos Santos, was killed in an attempted robbery at a gas station.

According to Brazilian media, in one of the cases, a car pulled up, its occupants told children to go inside and then opened fire.

Hundreds of angry residents took to the streets to protest the killings. They attacked buses, burning three of them.

Police have stepped up their presence in Campinas, located about 50 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, to prevent further violence.

The latest deadly incidents come as Brazil prepares to host the 2014 World Cup in June.

None of the venues for the soccer tournament is in Campinas. However, fans from around the world are expected to flock to nearby Sao Paulo, the country’s financial and business hub.

World's Dirtiest Man: Man Who Hasn't Had His Bath for Over 60 Years

Amou Haji has not washed for 60 years, because he believes being clean will make him sick, and his favourite food is rotten porcupine.

Smoking hot: The man who hasn't bathed for 60 years, Amou Haji, pictured here smoking his pipe.

To relax he likes to sit down and have a smoke, from a pipe packed with animal faeces.

Mr Haji, 80, says he chose this way of life after going through some emotional setbacks in his youth and since then - perhaps unsurprisingly - he has become a bit isolated.

His home is in Dejgah village in the southern province of Fars in Iran where, once, a group of young men offered to give him a shower - but luckily he managed to escape.

At night he either sleeps in a hole in the ground, which is quite like a grave, or in an open brick shack which concerned locals built for him.

Amou amour: Mr Haj's home is in Dejgah village in the southern province of Fars in Iran where, once, a group of young men offered to give him a shower - but he managed to escape.

As well as cleanliness, Mr Haji also has an aversion to clean food and drink. He much prefers the rotten meat of dead animals and five litres of water a day from a rusty oil can.

But don't think Mr Haji doesn't look after himself - when he wants to look his best he uses car mirrors for grooming and when he needs a haircut, he simply burns his locks in a fire.

As for clothing, he wears rags and, in the winter, a war helmet to ward off the cold .

The last record of longest time going without showers belonged to a 66-year-old Indian man, Kailash Singh, who had not taken a bath over 38 years. Mr Haji claims to have beaten that.