28 minutes ago18 killed after shooting between police and gangsters in Brazil
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)At least 18 people have been killed after a gunfight between police and members of criminal groups in Rio de Janeiro, as 400 police officials began the action, writes The Sun, the Pericope. Wars lasting for hours and where drug traffickers opened fires against police helicopters resulted [...]
Wars that lasted for hours and where drug traffickers opened fires against police helicopters resulted in the murder of 16 suspected members of criminal groups, a police official and a civilian, foreign media.
Local residents had signalled white robes to surrender but that the mask did not stop.
This is a massacre that police are calling an operation”, a woman for the Associated Press said.
Order forces supported the action, saying police teams “were violently attacked” with “military and guerrilla tactics”.
State authorities said criminals had used civilians as a shield during the operation. /Periscopi/
