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Brazil: at least 44 killed in a week of deadly police operations in three states

Police Brazil Rio Claudio Castro Jair Bolsonaro Rio de Janeiro Sao Paulo
Vehicles of the Rio de Janeiro's Military Police are parked outside the Getulio Vargas hospital, where injured and dead people were admitted after a police operation at the Complexo da Penha favela complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 2, 2023. © Mauro Pimentel, AFP

Nine people were killed Wednesday in a police operation targeting criminal gangs in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said, the latest in a week of security force raids that have left at least 44 dead across Brazil.

The Rio raid came after days of deadly police crackdowns on drug trafficking gangs that have left 16 dead in Sao Paulo state and 19 killed in the northeastern state of Bahia.

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