Swiss 'race' attack stuns Brazil

Paula Oliveira received some 100 razor cuts on her belly

Brazil has called in the Swiss envoy to discuss an alleged skinhead attack near Zurich on a pregnant Brazilian woman that caused her to miscarry twins.

Three skinheads are reported to have attacked Paula Oliveira, aged 26, on Monday, leaving her badly scarred.

Ms Oliveira received some 100 razor cuts, and the initials of the right-wing Swiss People's Party were also carved into her body.

Ms Oliveira's family says the assault was racially-motivated.

It says she had been speaking Portuguese outside a Zurich train station shortly before the attack.

"What they did to my daughter is like a horror movie," Ms Oliveira's father, Paulo, told Brazil's Globo TV.

Ms Oliveira was working as a lawyer for a big European company in Switzerland.

No-one has been arrested in connection with the attack.

A lawmaker from the Swiss People's Party condemned the attack.

"If that really was someone from our party, we wouldn't hesitate for a second. That person would be immediately kicked out," Oskar Freysinger told the Associated Press news agency.