Brazilians turn out in throngs to bury electrician

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Almost all the 6,000 residents of Gonzaga turned out to pay their respects to a young Brazilian emigrant killed by British police in error during a hunt for terrorists, whose burial was to take place Friday in his hometown.
The body of Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, arrived Thursday in Governador Valadares, in Minas Gerais state, six days after the deadly case of mistaken identity that has raised questions in Britain about ethnic profiling in the aftermath of that country's worst terror strikes.

"This is a loss that all of Brazil has felt," said Luciano Batel da Silva, Menezes' godfather, whose six youngest children accompanied the casket with a show of blood-red flowers.

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