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Credit: AP At least 25 people, including a police officer, have been killed in a drugs raid in a slum in Rio de Janeiro. Dramatic footage from local television in Brazil showed heavily armed men fleeing police by leaping from roof to roof as a police helicopter flew low over the Jacarezinho favela. Services on a subway line were temporarily suspended due to intense shooting in the region, according to a statement from the operator. Police conduct an operation against drug traffickers in the Jacarezinho favela Credit: Silvia Izquierdo/AP Jacarezinho, one of the city’s most densely populated favelas with about 40,000 residents, is dominated by the Comando Vermelho, one of Brazil’s biggest criminal organisations. ....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) â Police targeting drug traffickers raided a slum in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and at least one officer and 24 suspects died after being shot, authorities said. A police helicopter flew low over the Jacarezinho favela as heavily armed men fled police by leaping from roof to roof, according to images shown on local television. Service on a subway line was temporarily suspended âdue to intense shooting in the region,â according to a statement from the company that operates it. Jacarezinho, one of the cityâs most populous favelas, with some 40,000 residents, is dominated by the Comando Vermelho, one of Brazilâs leading criminal organizations. The police consider Jacarezinho to be one of the groupâs headquarters. ....
The police consider Jacarezinho to be one of the group’s headquarters. Silvia Izquierdo/AP At least one officer and 24 suspects died after being shot during the operation in Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho favela. They said the criminal gang has a “warlike structure of soldiers equipped with rifles, grenades, bulletproof vests, pistols, camouflaged clothing and other military accessories”. The Candido Mendes University’s Public Safety Observatory said that at least 12 police operations in Rio state this year have resulted in three or more deaths. Silvia Izquierdo/AP Blood covers the floor of a home during a police operation targeting drug traffickers. ....
Favela residents in Rio protest after police raid leaves 24 suspects, 1 officer dead A bloody, hours-long gun battle in a Rio de Janeiro slum echoed into Friday, with authorities saying the police raid killed two dozen criminals while residents and activists claimed human rights abuses. Social Sharing The Associated Press · At least 25 killed in shootout during Brazilian police raid CBC News21 days ago 0:38Television images showed suspects trying to escape across rooftops as police entered a Rio de Janeiro slum in armoured vehicles and helicopters flew overhead during a raid targeting drug traffickers..0:38 A bloody, hours-long gun battle in a Rio de Janeiro slum echoed into Friday, with authorities saying the police raid killed two dozen criminals while residents and activists claimed human rights abuses. ....
Brazil favela shootout between police and drug gang leaves 25 dead The neighbourhood is considered a base for the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, Rio s biggest drug gang 6 May 2021 • 8:13pm The incident began with an exchange of fire at a metro station Credit: MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images At least 25 people, including at least one police officer, were killed in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday in a shootout during a police raid targeting drug traffickers in the city s Jacarezinho neighborhood, according to civil police. It was the highest-ever death toll from a police raid in the state, which has for decades suffered from drug-related violence. ....