US Edition132 killed in massive Rio police crackdown on gang: public defender
The largest police operation targeted Comando Vermelho gang leaders, resulting in 132 deaths including suspects and officers, with 81 arrests and significant weapons seizures.
- On October 28, 2025, over 2,500 police and soldiers raided the Comando Vermelho gang in Rio de Janeiro, arresting 81 suspects and resulting in at least 64 deaths, including four police officers.
- Rio's Governor Claudio Castro called the operation the largest in the city's history, emphasizing it targeted a major drug gang.
- Human rights organizations criticized the raid for its high death toll, with the UN reminding authorities of their obligations under international human rights law.
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Just after the most lethal police operation in Brazil’s history and despite numerous criticisms, support for hard-handed proposals driven by the right against criminal factions, including a law to declare them terrorists in the South American country, is multiplying. Tuesday’s mega operation in two favelas complexes in Rio de Janeiro left at least 117 suspected criminals and four policemen dead, and was described as “a success” against “narcoter…
A large-scale police operation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday left 132 people dead. "Operação Contenção," a year in the making, is the deadliest police operation ever in Rio. A reconstruction.
Families cluster at Rio morgue looking for answers after deadly
RIO DE JANEIRO: Families lined up at a morgue on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro to identify relatives killed in Brazil’s deadliest ever police raids, and funerals began to take place for four police officers who died taking part in the operation. Authorities have said at least 121 people, including the officers, died in the Tuesday raids targeting the Comando Vermelho gang that
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A massive anti-drug raid in Rio de Janeiro left 132 people dead in the early hours of October 28 as Brazil’s security forces confronted one of the country’s biggest crime gangs. It was one of the deadliest security operations in modern Brazilian history. Around 2,500 officers descended on the favelas of Complexo do Alemão and Complexo da Penha, strongholds of Brazil’s oldest criminal group, Comando Vermelho. There were more than 80 arrests. Auth…
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