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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Elonore Hughes

Protesters call for governor’s resignation after Rio’s deadliest police raid

Hundreds of protesters on Friday marched through one of the favelas targeted in Rio de Janeiro's most lethal police raid that left more than 100 dead, calling for Rio state Gov. Cláudio Castro to resign amid continued outrage over the deadly operation.

Locals, politicians, activists, grieving mothers who lost their sons in prior operations and people from other Rio neighborhoods gathered to voice their fury in Vila Cruzeiro, part of the Penha complex of favelas, where days prior residents laid out scores of bodies they had collected from a nearby green area following the raid.

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