A heavily armed police raid in the Jacarezinho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday resulted in at least 28 deaths and many wounded. It was the deadliest police raid and the second deadliest massacre in Rio’s history. The police said they were executing arrest and search warrants against alleged drug traffickers. Residents washed away pools of blood after police officers, supported by armored personnel carriers and helicopters, used automatic weapons and explosives into the densely populated residential neighborhood.
Fogo Cruzado, a research institute that tracks armed violence in Rio de Janeiro, reported that 38 people have been killed in Jacarezinho during police raids since July 2016, constituting 83 percent of all gun homicides in the area. Last year, police in the state of Rio killed 1,239 people, an average of three per day, according to official data. Nearly 80 percent of Brazilians killed by Rio’s police are Black and brown, despite representing only about half
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – At least 25 people have been killed after hundreds of heavily armed police stormed into one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest slum areas, reportedly targeting drug traffickers.
Local media showed live footage of seven armed young men hopping through the roofs of North Zone’s Jacarezinho favela in the early hours of Thursday morning, as bulletproof helicopters hovered over them.
The report said the “extremely suspicious criminals” were attempting to escape from the police. Two passengers on the metro were hit by a stray bullet and one police officer was killed.
Police said the criminal organization Comando Vermelho prevented the hiring of teenagers for train kidnappings.
Police said at least 25 people were killed Thursday in a shooting by a police officer in an operation against drug traffickers.
The suspects tried to escape from the rooftops, police entered the hut in armored vehicles and saw helicopters flying in the television footage. The blazing fire kept the neighbors at home.
Three policemen were shot and one was wounded in the head in hospital, police said.
Bullets fired during the fight hit a light rail car and injured two passengers from the shattered broken glass window, firefighters said.
By Mara Hvistendahl
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