schools and health posts closed. The return to school was suspended for the public school students. Some bank branches and shopping malls have run regularly. The Department of Legal Medicine of Vitória got its refrigerators full and with corpses scattered along its corridors. Under normal conditions, three or four corpses are examined and two are released per day in the department, which holds a maximum of 36. In addition to the deaths, hundreds of stores were looted and about 200 vehicles were stolen during this period. The number of occurrences increased tenfold over the state average. According to the president of the Civil Police Union, this one does not have enough officials to investigate crimes of this magnitude. Response César Colnago, the acting governor of Espírito Santo, told reporters on Wednesday that the 1,000 soldiers already sent to the state were not enough to stem an ongoing tide of violence. The killings in the state of Espírito Santo in the capital of Vitória and other cities erupted after friends and family of military police officers blocked their barracks over the weekend to demand higher pay for the officers, preventing patrols from cruising the streets. The union representing civil police officers said 101 people have been killed since police stopped patrolling last Friday night. The state government has not released a death toll. Some buses circulated for a few hours Thursday morning, but union officials ordered them off the streets after the union's leader, Walace Belmiro Fernaziari, was shot dead near a bus terminal. The union said gunmen threatened two bus drivers, telling them they would set fire to buses that circulated. At least two buses have been torched over the past six days in Vitoria and several stores have been looted. Some shopping malls opened for a limited number of hours. Schools remained closed and medical services at public hospitals were interrupted. Even though Espírito Santos' streets are being patrolled by both the National Guard and the Brazilian Army, the number of casualties ever since the Military Police decided to go on strike went over 100 on Thursday (the 9th). According to the Civil Police union, there have been 113 murders since last Friday (3rd). The governor's office has yet to confirm these numbers. 1,200 troops (from both the Army and the National Guard) have been deployed to the state since Monday (6th). The strike, which has kept police officers