Overview
- State officials keep the death toll near 60–64, while the Public Defender’s Office and local tallies report 119–132 or more after residents recovered dozens of bodies from hillsides and laid them out in a public square.
- Witness accounts and images describe signs consistent with executions and torture on several corpses, intensifying demands for an independent investigation and transparent accounting.
- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva convened an emergency meeting, ministers are traveling to Rio, and Brasília says the state did not consult or request federal support before launching the raid.
- Authorities report 81–113 arrests, the seizure of more than 90 rifles and over half a ton of drugs, and four police officers killed, with reports that criminals used drones to drop explosive devices and commandeered buses as barricades.
- Schools and universities suspended classes and services were disrupted across affected neighborhoods, while Argentina announced heightened border vigilance to monitor possible cross-border movements linked to the crisis.