At least 119 people were killed, including four policemen, and 113 arrested in the largest anti-drug police operation in the history of Rio de Janeiro'.

Residents of the Penha favela in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro laid out at least 64 bodies on one of the neighbourhood's main streets on Wednesday after a bloody police operation. The state government had earlier confirmed that 60 suspects and four police officers had been killed in the operation against the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) crime syndicate.

At least 132 people were killed during a deadly police raid in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro, the Rio de Janeiro public defender's office said on Wednesday, a day after the operation took place. Mourners gathered in the streets of Rio de Janeiro near where the operation took place as bodies were laid on the road.

At least 64 people have been killed in Rio de Janeiro’s deadliest police raid in history. Thousands of heavily armed officers stormed the favelas of Alemão and Penha, targeting the powerful Red Command (Comando Vermelho) gang that controls large parts of northern Rio.

AT least 64 people were killed and 81 arrested as 2,500 heavily armed police and soldiers stormed Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in the city’s largest-ever anti-gang operation. Gun battles raged for

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -At least 20 people, including two police officers, were killed in a large-scale operation against organized crime in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, the government of the Brazilian state said.

Beautiful white-sand beaches backed by luxurious condominiums, swathes of protected Atlantic forest that have somehow been left untouched amidst a fast-growing urban sprawl, and all the vibrant samba bars and kerbside boteco bars: Everyone knows and loves Rio de Janeiro,

Braskem approved a plan to spend 4.2 billion reais (~$780 million) to increase the capacity of its petrochemical complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.