RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro and arrested 81 suspects Tuesday while sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects dead, officials said.

The operation included officers in helicopters and armored vehicles and targeted the notorious Red Command in the sprawling low-income favelas of Complexo de Alemao and Penha, police said.

Rio’s state Gov. Claudio Castro said 60 criminal suspects were “neutralized," 81 arrested and 75 rifles seized during the massive one-day raid that he called the biggest such operation in the city's history.

An Associated Press journalist also saw the bodies of at least two police officers among 10 bodies brought to the Getulio Vargas hospital in Penha. An

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