APTOPIX Brazil Gang Raid A priest blesses the bodies of people killed the day before during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ...

APTOPIX Brazil Police Operation Getulio Vargas Hospital workers remove an injured person from a police truck after he was injured in a police operation against alleged drug traffickers in the Complexo ...

The Rio de Janeiro state government launched Operation Containment on October 28, a large-scale and intense police raid targeting the notorious Comando Vermelho (Red Command) criminal faction in the ...

By Manuela Andreoni, Fabio Teixeira and Luciana Magalhaes RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Just after midnight on October 28, a group of police officers were startled by roughly 20 armed men on ...