Overview
- Roughly 150 officers with two armored vehicles hunted Claudio Augusto dos Santos, a key Comando Vermelho figure with at least eight outstanding warrants.
- Dos Santos was killed in a heavy firefight in favelas near Santa Teresa, with authorities confirming at least eight deaths in total.
- The operation included a hostage standoff in Morro dos Prazeres that left a resident dead while another captive was rescued, and two officers were wounded.
- Police said they detained 116 people and seized 21 firearms along with 105 kilograms of cocaine and 600 kilograms of marijuana.
- Suspected gang members set a bus ablaze and blocked roads, disrupting central traffic as Rio faces a recurring pattern of lethal police actions in favelas.