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At least 64 people have died following a police operation targeting a gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, Oct. 28, according to reports

Four police officers were among those killed, local authorities said

Police said they had carried out almost 100 arrests and seized over 90 rifles, while U.K. newspaper The Times reported that half a ton of drugs had been seized during the raid

At least 64 people have reportedly died following a police operation targeting a gang in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro.

On Tuesday, Oct. 28, the police targeted the Red Command gang in Rio de Janeiro's northern suburbs, near the international airport, according to U.K. newspaper The Times and the BBC .

While their aim was to serve arrest warrants to the leading members of the drug trafficking gan

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