Brazilian shopper catches stray bullet in handbag

RIO DE JANEIRO: A Brazilian woman really almost did shop till she dropped — when a stray bullet lodged in her handbag at a swanky mall in Rio de Janeiro.
"I was with a friend coming out of Shopping Leblon," wrote Renata Brito Moret on her Facebook page, "when I heard a noise really close by, as if something had fallen into my bag."
That something, it turned out, was a bullet that made four holes in the leather bag she'd slung over her shoulder during the shopping trip last Friday.
O Globo newspaper identified Moret as a designer and said that police had no reports of shootings in the area, suggesting that the bullet was a stray from a distant shot.
Stray bullets from gunfights between drug gangs or between gangs and police armed with military grade weapons are a regular problem in Rio.
Just this Sunday, a man was hit by a bullet in his hand while he played football, while last week a 15-year-old girl died after being hit in the head by a stray bullet. — AFP