After two days of raucous street parties engulfing the nation, the Rio carnival focus Sunday was on the city's elite schools as they prepared to strut their stuff at the city's sambadrome. The ugly side of life intruded, however, on the unbridled joy after ten people were hurt in an overnight shooting in the tourist magnet of Paraty, west of Rio, Brazil's CBN radio reported. Another man was injured in a separate shooting in the northern city of Salvador, which hosts one of Brazil's most spectacular carnivals. In Rio, the urban violence that so often scars the life of the city of more than six million has faded into the distance, at least for five days of festivities which began Friday and drew more than a million people Saturday to street parties known as 'blocos'.
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