US EditionUp to 64 Killed in Major Drug Raid in Rio de Janeiro
About 2,500 security agents targeted Comando Vermelho in Rio's favelas, resulting in 64 deaths and 81 arrests, the deadliest police operation in the city's history, officials said.
- More than 60 people were killed during a police raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro, marking the operation as one of the deadliest in the city's history, according to officials.
- About 2,500 police and soldiers targeted the Red Command in Complexo de Alemão and Penha, arresting 81 suspects and seizing firearms.
- The UN Human Rights office expressed horror at the high casualty rate and called for investigations into the operation's deaths.
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At least 119 people were killed during a police raid in the favelas of Rio, the most deadly operation in Brazil's history. ...
The deadliest police operation in Rio de Janeiro's history has left at least 132 people dead, according to figures released today by a public agency, doubling the previously known official death toll.
In Brazil, the police are using massive force against a drug cartel. After the operation, the governor of Rio de Janeiro speaks of 64 deaths. The judicial authority now assumes a much higher number of victims. Regional head Castro stands "to everything we did yesterday".
The bodies found by family members, all of men, were aligned side by side on the floor of a square of the Penha, in view of the neighbors, according to information published by the local press.
About 2,500 policemen were involved in the operation. It was the bloodiest police operation in Rio de Janeiro's history.
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