Brazil Police Drug Raid In Rio de Janeiro Slum Leaves Twenty Five Dead
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bloody, hourslong gunbattle in a Rio de Janeiro slum echoed into Friday, with authorities saying the police mission killed two dozen criminals while residents and activists claimed human rights abuses. It was just after sunrise Thursday when dozens of officers from Rio de Janeiro state’s civil police stormed Jacarezinho, a favela…