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Goiania

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Goiânia 

a city in Brazil, situated in the central part of the Brazilian Highlands, on the Meia Ponte River (Paranaiba basin); capital of the state of Goiás since 1937. Population, 388,900 (1970). Goiánia has a railroad station; it is also a highway junction (to Brasilia, Belém. and other cities). The center of a livestock raising and mining (diamonds, titanium ores) area, it has food industries (slaughterhouses and refrigeration plants, milk-bottling plants, canneries, and others) as well as cement, chemical, paper, and other industrial enterprises. There is an airport in the city.



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He then cut up her body and stuffed her torso into a suitcase, which he dumped on a rural riverbank near Goiania in July.
Prosecutors in Goiania, Brazil, are calling for the maximum 30-year sentence.
Mohamed D'Ali Carvalho Santos, pictured, told the court in Goiania how he stabbed Cara, 17, to death and dismembered her last year after they argued about his heavy drug use and his refusal to give her money.
 
 
 
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