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.