2,500 heavily armed officers, backed by armoured vehicles, helicopters and drones took part in the operation.
Bodies piled up in poor neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday as police launched their biggest ever raids on the city’s drug traffickers, leaving at least 64 dead in warlike scenes.
As many as 2,500 heavily armed officers, backed by armoured vehicles, helicopters and drones took part in the operation targeting Brazil’s main drug-trafficking gang in two poor neighbourhoods, or favelas, in northern Rio.
