An 8-year-old girl dies from a shot in a favela in Rio de Janeiro

Brazil's Agatha Felix , 8, died on Saturday after being shot in the back during a police operation in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, becoming the last victim of the violence plaguing the Fluminense state.

The girl was with her mother Friday night inside a van in the Alemao Complex , a group of favelas in the northern part of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, when she was shot in the back.

The girl was helped after receiving the shot and taken to a hospital in Rio, but did not resist the injuries and died early this Saturday.

According to stories from neighbors collected by the Voz das Communities, a means of communication from the favelas of Rio, the police fired on a motorcycle, but the bullet deflected , entered the van and reached the back of the minor.

"He killed an innocent, an intelligent, studious, obedient, future girl. Where are the cops who did that? His voice is the weapon," denounced the girl's grandfather, Ailton Felix, in statements collected by the newspaper Extra .

The Military Police of Rio de Janeiro, on the other hand, reported in a statement that agents from the Fazendinha Pacifying Police Unit were attacked at several points in the favela simultaneously and, for that reason, the team "responded" to aggression

After the death of Ágatha Félix, dozens of neighbors took to the streets of the favela to demand an end to the violence in the Alemao Complex, one of the most dangerous areas of Rio de Janeiro where there are continuous clashes between police and gangs of drug traffickers.

According to data from the Public Security Institute of Rio de Janeiro, between January and July of this year, 1,075 people died in police operations in this Brazilian city, a number 20% higher than the same period last year.

The increase in the number of deaths coincides with the arrival of the new governor of Rio de Janeiro, Witson Witzel , who has been denounced before international organizations by human rights organizations because he is a defender of the use of snipers and helicopters armored in police operations, despite putting hundreds of innocent people at risk.

Witzel also defends a police solution for the problems of violence in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and that the uniformed are not sanctioned for the deaths they cause.

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