China News Agency, Sao Paulo, May 25 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) According to Brazilian media reports, as of the early morning of the 25th, 24 people were killed, including 15 suspects, in the anti-drug operation carried out by the Brazilian police in Rio de Janeiro on the 24th.
Four other people were injured.
Brazil World Wide Web reported on the 25th that in the early morning of the 24th, the Brazilian police launched an operation to clear the leaders of drug trafficking organizations in the Vila Cruzeiro slum area of Penha, north of Rio de Janeiro, and conducted operations with local militants. Intense gunfight.
So far, 24 people have been killed in the operation, of which 15 are suspects.
A 41-year-old woman named Gabrielle Ferreira da Cunha was hit by a stray bullet in her home and died at the scene.
Four other people, including a policeman, were injured.
Local police said they seized 13 rifles, four pistols, 12 grenades and a large amount of drugs during the operation.
The goal of the operation, police said, was to arrest the leader of a drug-trafficking organization hiding there.
Earlier, the police reported that 22 people were killed in the operation, including 13 suspects.
In the early morning of the 25th, two suspects died in hospital.
Local police said the crackdown had been in preparation for months, and there was evidence that leaders of some drug-trafficking organizations from other slums in Rio, as well as states in northern and northeastern Brazil, had taken refuge in the city of Peña in Rio.
According to the Brazil World Wide Web report, in February this year, the Brazilian police carried out an operation to clear drug trafficking organizations in the city of Rio Peña, killing 8 people at that time.
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