Rio Police Raid on Favela

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Rio authorities said 16 suspected criminals were killed in confrontations with police in Complexo do Alemao along with a police...

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Videos that were shared on social media showed criminals shooting at each other and a police helicopter flying low...

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Rio’s police have shot at targets from helicopters, even in neighborhoods with a lot of people, and video shows that shots...

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At the site of the raid, reporters from the Associated Press saw people carrying about 10 bodies while others...

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It’s a massacre inside, which police are calling an operation,” one woman told AP, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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”They’re not letting us help (victims),” she added, saying she saw one man arrested for attempting to do so.

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A Rio’s police force spokesman said some of the criminals wore uniforms to disguise themselves as police officers.

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“I would rather they (the suspects) had not reacted and then we could have arrested 15, 14 of them.

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But unfortunately they chose to fire at our policemen,” said Ronaldo Oliveira, an investigator of Rio’s police.

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