Glamorous tourist is shot dead after her Uber driver took a wrong turn

A tourist trip to celebrate New Year’s in Rio de Janeiro ended in tragedy when she was shot dead after her Uber driver accidentally entered a dangerous slum.

Diely Silva, 34, was on her way back to her rental apartment in Brazil when they came under fire on Saturday evening.

Gunmen struck the driver, Anderson Pinheiro, in the back and hit Silva at least three times. A friend traveling with Silva was not injured.

Despite the wound, Pinheiro drove away from the Fontela community and was able to track down a police patrol unit.

Silva, who was shot in the neck, died at the scene. Pinheiro was rushed to Lourenco Jorge Hospital, where he was treated and released on Sunday.

He was questioned by police and said he did not know where the gunshots came from.

Silva, an accounting manager, arrived from nearby São Paulo state on Saturday morning and headed out with two friends before ordering two Uber vehicles.

Diely Silva posed on a beach in Rio de Janeiro and shared photos on her Instagram just hours before she was shot dead during an Uber ride

Hours before the shooting, Silva posed for photos on a beach in Rio de Janeiro and shared the images on her Instagram.

“Hey Rio,” she wrote.

Silva, a native of the northeastern state of Bahia, had been in Rio de Janeiro in December to ring in the new year with six of her closest friends.

Her friends and family mourned her death on social media.

“Another family destroyed by crime in Rio de Janeiro,” wrote Silva’s cousin, Tamires Colleti.

‘Now that family is ours. For our family, our year ended yesterday, minutes before midnight.”

Maria Alves had wanted Silva to be part of her upcoming wedding.

“I wish I had time to invite you to be a bridesmaid at my wedding, I was looking forward to it,” Alves said. “Unfortunately, the world is cruel and violence has taken you from us.”

Diely Silva wanted to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro with her friends for the second year in a row

The death of Diely Silva (photo) follows the shooting of Argentinian tourist Gastón Burlón on December 12. Gastón survived an attack after the vehicle he was riding in was guided to a slum by GPS. His wife, two sons and one of their girlfriends were not injured in the shooting

Silva’s killing comes two weeks after an Argentinian tourist was shot in the head and chest after driving his rental car into a Rio de Janeiro slum.

Gastón Burlón, 51, his wife, two sons and one of their girlfriends were on their way to visit Christ the Redeemer when they came under fire in Morro dos Prazeres, a seedy neighborhood ruled by the Comando Vermelho, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the country.

Burlón, who previously worked as tourism secretary for Bariloche, a city in Argentina’s Patagonia region, was rushed to a local hospital where he remains under observation.

“Surprisingly, two people appeared and pointed their guns at us from both sides and fired four shots, causing us to lose control of the car and crash into a wall,” Burlón’s wife, Nádia Loza, told Argentina’s Clarín newspaper.