Rio raid brings the death toll from six days of police crackdowns on drug gangs in Brazil to at least 42. Read more at straitstimes.com.
RIO DE JANEIRO - At least nine people were killed on Wednesday in a police operation targeting criminal gangs in a complex of slums in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said, the latest in a series of deadly security force raids across Brazil.to at least 42, including 14 in Sao Paulo state and 19 in the northeastern state of Bahia.
The deaths come amid mounting calls for independent investigations of alleged police abuses in Brazil, where the security forces have faced accusations of human-rights violations in their war with heavily armed drug gangs. “A clash occurred when police teams came under attack by gunmen at the scene,” they said in a statement.“Nine of them died of their injuries.”Rio state legislator Dani Monteiro noted the operation came just over a year after a May 2022 raid in a nearby favela that left 23 dead, the second-deadliest police operation in the city’s history.
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