Death toll puts the incident among Rio’s deadliest police operations in recent history
At least 21 people have been shot dead and seven wounded during a police raid on a Rio de Janeiro favela to capture the leaders of a drug-trafficking organization.
The death toll puts the incident among Rio’s deadliest police operations in recent history. It comes one year after “It was a very intense confrontation,” Colonel Ivan Blaz, spokesman for the militarized police force that led the operation, told reporters. Rio state public prosecutors said in a statement they had opened a criminal investigation. They gave the military police 10 days to provide details about the operation, indicating which officials were responsible for each death and the justification for use of lethal force, the statement said.
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