Waze app directions take woman to wrong address, where she is killed

But while they had wanted to head for Avenue Quintino Bocaiuva the device guided them to Quintino Bocaiuva Street which lies in a violent favela.

Someone opened fire, with 20 bullets hitting the couple’s auto, the police spokesman said. G1 reported that actress Fabiana Karla and her husband narrowly escaped unharmed when their Global Positioning System sent them into the same favela back in August.

Regina Murmura, 70, and husband Francisco, 69, had been reportedly attempting to visit a beach in Niteroi, Rio – when they accidentally took a wrong turn into the Carumujo favela on Saturday after using navigation app Waze.

The navigation app took the elderly couple down a road in Caramujo, one of the city’s most risky favelas – or slums – instead of the beachfront.

Police tell The Telegraph that traffickers carried out the shooting.

Police don’t have an explanation for the murder, but say the area is loaded with drug gangs.

Mr Murmura quickly drove his wife of 50 years to a nearby hospital but despite the best efforts of medical staff she died soon after their arrival.

‘They fired even though they knew were an elderly couple.

“The gentleman was very confused”. At one point, Francisco Murmura got out of the vehicle and “received a rifle butt”, an official says.

‘It was an unfortunate coincidence’.

Leading tributes to her mother, Renata said: “They were not a couple, they were a single person”.

“My dad still called my mum a treasure”.

Responding to the tragic incident, Waze said it was “incredibly saddened” but said it can not remove risky areas from its service.

“Citizens who reside in these areas need to be able to get home”.

In a tragic story out of Brazil, a 70-year-old woman was killed when Waze directions led her and her husband into a unsafe neighborhood rather than to a tourist-friendly beach area, their intended destination.

In the city of Rio alone, about 1.4 million people live in favelas – or about a fifth of the population.