Rio trying to clean up from the drug

In Brazil, a large-scale special operation to combat drug trafficking. During the four days of continuous raids and armed clashes in the slums of Rio de Janeiro killed more than two dozen people. Also in the hands of the police hit a hundred and fifty suspected of drug trafficking. "We will continue our actions tomorrow, - said at a press briefing on November 24 Rio police Colonel Lima Castro. - We will be patrolling the streets and raiding. Work will be more tightly ".

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The police took a safe position during the operation detained a gang of drug traffickers.





Police during an operation in the Jacarezinho slum.



Police patrols Jacarezinho favela. Total in Rio de Janeiro, there are about thousands of shanty towns inhabited by every third citizen of the port city of six million.



check suspects during an operation to clean up slums of Rio.



Workers remove the consequences of an attack on a police station. The last two years in the slums of Rio was relatively quiet: in 2008 there was introduced patrolling the so-called "conciliation police." Recently, however, two groups formed an alliance with drug and began re-division of spheres of influence, leading to an increase in violence.



The police are suspected of drug trafficking after a shootout during an operation to arrest drug gangs in the slums 2. Mandela on Wednesday in a shootout with police killed 13 alleged members of the drug mafia. At the same time wounded and two guardians of the law



The arrest of the suspected drug trafficker. Decisive and unprecedented scale law enforcement actions by the need to ensure the safety of tourists and to prepare immediately to the two biggest sports festival in the world, which will be held in Brazil in the coming years.



Relatives of the wounded output Vila Cruzeiro favela resident after discharge from the hospital. He was shot during a gun battle between drug traffickers and police in front of the hut village.



The team of engineers will examine the suspicious box, which was found in the main square Osorio in Ipanema. "Cleansing" of urban neighborhoods and response bandits have led to the fact that in the city there was panic.



Locals from the bus that burned gang of drug traffickers in the favelas of Santa Cruz. Over the past few days, the bandits burned at least 29 vehicles, including several buses, as well as police stations fired



In response to the police operation drug gangs vent anger on cars and other urban infrastructure.



Armed police patrol the streets in the Jacarezinho slum near graffiti reading: "Everything in God's hands."



Children curiously looking at a police patrol in the Jacarezinho slum.



Armored police car patrolling the streets Favela



A police officer who was shot during a drug raid, provide first aid to the ambulance in the favela Vila Cruzeiro.



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