Increasing violence in Brazil's Bahia state challenges Lula in his election stronghold

Forensic workers carry the body of a person killed during clashes between rival criminal gangs as the victim's relatives follow in the Jardim Esperanca neighborhood on the outskirts of Salvador, Bahia state, Brazil, Friday, Aug. Credit: AP/Eraldo Peres SALVADOR, Brazil — On the day they were going to kill him, Evilásio Santos da Silveira Júnior, 33, told his sister he was going grocery shopping in the city of Salvador in northern Brazil where the line between the crossfire of rival drug gangs and police lethality has been increasingly blurred. But he never came back home. His death and the questions surrounding it encapsulate a major hurdle for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to beat Sen.

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