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Rio Police Raid in Maré Leaves Three Dead, 12-Year-Old Wounded

Authorities describe it as a preemptive move based on intelligence of an imminent faction incursion.

Overview

  • Rio’s Civil Police said the three people killed were bodyguards for a criminal faction leader.
  • One person was arrested, and officers seized at least two rifles and several pistols, according to local reports.
  • The injured sixth-grade student from Hélio Smidt Municipal School was treated at Maré Family Clinic and reported out of danger after the bullet was removed.
  • Classes at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro were suspended after stray-bullet marks were found in a classroom, local media reported.
  • The operation forms part of a sustained crackdown in northern favelas nearly a month after an October 28 intervention in Penha and Complexo do Alemão that local reports say left more than 120 dead.