Grieving households have been mourning dozens of individuals killed throughout a deadly police operation in opposition to gang members in Rio de Janeiro, days earlier than Brazil hosts the COP30 local weather summit.
Native officers say round 60 individuals died in an enormous raid within the metropolis’s sprawling Alemao and Penha favelas, concentrating on the infamous drug-trafficking gang Comando Vermelho (Crimson Command).
About 40 our bodies have been lined up on the road. They have been carried there by residents who went on the lookout for their lacking kinfolk after Tuesday’s operation.
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Mourners gathering round individuals killed in lethal police raids.
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Relations grieving after operation concentrating on the Comando Vermelho gang. Pic: AP
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Prince William is among the many dignitaries attributable to attend Brazil within the coming days on the C40 world summit – a part of the construct as much as COP30 – the place he’ll hand out the 2025 Earthshot Prize.
Celebrities, together with pop star Kylie Minogue and four-time Formulation One world champion Sebastian Vettel, are additionally anticipated to characteristic.
Round 2,500 police and troopers have been concerned within the operation on Tuesday, which began shootouts, left 4 officers useless and resulted in additional than 80 arrests.
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The state authorities stated 93 rifles and greater than half a ton of medicine have been additionally seized.
Police in Rio have typically performed large-scale operations in opposition to legal teams forward of main occasions within the metropolis, which hosted the 2016 Olympics, the G20 summit in 2024 and the BRICS summit in July.
Footage on social media confirmed fireplace and smoke rising from the 2 favelas as gunfire rang out.
Colleges and a close-by college throughout the 2 neighbourhoods have been closed.
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Navy police detain suspected drug sellers throughout Tuesday’s operation. Pic: Reuters
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The raids began a lethal shootout inside the two favelas. Pic: Reuters
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Greater than 80 arrests have been made by a particular unit of the army police. Pic: Reuters
Suspected gang members blocked roads in northern and southeastern Rio in response to the raid, native media reported.
At the very least 50 buses have been commandeered for use within the blockades, the town’s bus organisation, Rio Onibus, stated.
Rio’s state governor Claudio Castro praised the police raids, calling them the most important such operation within the metropolis’s historical past.
However the United Nations Human Rights Workplace stated it was “horrified” by the lethal police operation, and reminded authorities of their obligations beneath worldwide human rights regulation.
Rising from Rio’s prisons, the Crimson Command legal gang has expanded its management in favelas lately.
Rio has been the scene of deadly police raids for many years. In March 2005, some 29 individuals have been killed in Rio’s Baixada Fluminense area, whereas in Might 2021, 28 have been killed within the Jacarezinho favela.
