Rio de Janeiro – At least eleven people were killed in a police operation in a favela in the Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro. Among them is said to have been a leading drug dealer who had been on the run since 2019, as the news portal “G1” reported on Thursday. He was responsible for a series of attacks that have killed several security forces in the state of Pará in the north of the country since 2021.
Eleven dead in police operation in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
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