About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects and four police officers dead, officials said.
Some 81 suspects were arrested, while 93 rifles and han half a ton of drugs were seized, the state government said, adding that those killed "resisted police action."Rio's civil police said on X that four officers died in Tuesday's operation. The operation Tuesday followed a year of investigation into the criminal group, police said. These are war numbers," he said.
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