Corpses line Rio de Janeiro street after scores killed in police raids targeting criminals in Brazilian city’s favelas.

The police operation was one of the most violent in Brazil’s recent history, with human rights organisations calling for ...

Brazilian police hit the Rio gang hard in a raid that left 119 dead, and which human rights groups called a "disaster." ...

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people ...

State police said the raids targeting a major drug gang the day before had been planned exhaustively for more than two months ...

The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history killed at least 119 people, authorities said on Wednesday, as Rio de ...

Brazilian police say the death toll in a massive raid on a notorious drug gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to 119 killed, ...

In the Penha neighbourhood, a low-income area located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, weeping and mourning residents ...

At least 132 people have died in a massive police raid aimed at organized crime in Rio de Janeiro, the regional public defender’s office said on Wednesday. Among the dead are four Brazilian police ...

B efore dawn on October 28th, security forces advanced into dozens of slums in Rio de Janeiro. Their targets were the leaders ...

The police said they planned the raids for months and expected a high death toll. The city will host global leaders next week ...

Residents of a Rio de Janeiro community lined up their dead in the street Wednesday after Brazil's bloodiest police raid killed at least 119 people, spotlighting the city's controversial war against ...