Overview
- Officials report 121 dead including four police officers, while the public defender’s office says the toll has reached 132.
- Rio’s civil police say 99 bodies have been identified, including 42 people with outstanding warrants and 78 with prior criminal records.
- Hundreds to thousands marched in Vila Cruzeiro calling for Governor Cláudio Castro’s resignation as residents and rights groups alleged extrajudicial killings, citing reports of torture and a decapitation.
- U.N. experts and human rights organizations urged independent inquiries, and Brazil’s top court demanded details of the operation ahead of Monday’s session with the governor and police chiefs.
- State authorities touted the seizure of 120 weapons worth about 12.8 million reais, including 93 rifles with foreign origins, even as new polling showed majority approval of the raid nationally.