Reports from the Civil Police and the Military Police were later opposed to the first versions of 5 deaths, which made official 18 deaths but clarified that it was a partial figure, because work was being done on the spot.
The Public Defender’s Office later said, based on data from health units in the area, that there were 15 bodies in the Alemao Emergency Care Unit and another 5 in the “Getulio Vargas” hospital.
Police identified the dead officer as Corporal Bruno de Paulo Costa, 38, married with two children, according to the site of the Folha de São Paulo newspaper.
Versions from various media also report the death of a woman who was with her boyfriend in a car that stopped next to a police mobile and was shot.
Nearly 400 soldiers participated in the operation, who entered the Complexo do Alemao early, a conglomerate of favelas in the north of Rio.
According to the authorities’ statement, the Military and Civil Police teams “were attacked with bullets at different points in the complex.”
The operation, for which four planes and ten armored vehicles were used, sought to arrest a gang dedicated to the theft of cars and cargo vehicles and the robbery of banks.
During the action, the authorities seized a high-caliber machine gun, four rifles and two pistols.
This is the second operation in less than ten days in the area, after another action by the uniformed men on July 12 left six dead.
Clashes between the Police and criminal groups that dispute the control of drug trafficking are frequent in the most impoverished areas of Rio de Janeiro, punished by violence.
Police operations are often questioned by human rights organizations for their levels of violence.
Source: Ambito
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