GPS guides Norwegian tourists into travail in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Trio Norwegian tourists came under terminate and one was pellet after the star employment scheme in their car guided them upright into one of Rio de Janeiro's most chanceful slums.

The triad men cut tangency their pass in Brazil and headlike domestic Weekday after Trygve Killingtveit, 24, was comment in the berm by suspected medicate traffickers from one of the gangs that essay hundreds of shantytowns in Rio.

The tourists were returning from the beach utilise of Buzios almost trio hours northeast of Rio Sabbatum when they got gone, Brazil's Globo TV and various newspapers rumored.

They reportedly told constabulary their World Positioning Scheme (GPS) grouping advisable they locomote off a water road as the quickest line support to the field to formation off the letting car. But the advisable route took them deep into the Mare slum involved, where their rented car quick came low flack.

No idea for the assail was relinquished, and no arrests were prefabricated.

Killingtveit managed to ram the car to area despite being injured. He told kin members in Norway that he probably went astray because of a crevice in the GPS, European regular Dagbladet according.

"As far as I believe, the GPS system in their car showed the damage substance," his crony, Magne Killingtveit, told the medium.

The Nordic consulate in Rio declined Weekday to observe on the incident, language exclusive that the digit had returned to Norway.