{"id":312019,"date":"2025-09-05T18:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=312019"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:46:45","slug":"brazil-police-in-rio-de-janeiro-raid-a-drug-trafficking-ring-and-kill-8-gang-members-2-hostages-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=312019","title":{"rendered":"Brazil: Police in Rio de Janeiro raid a drug trafficking ring and kill 8 gang members; 2 hostages freed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/304\/mcs\/media\/images\/53663000\/jpg\/_53663180_012286727-1.jpg\" alt=\"Paramilitary police block a street outside the Engenho complex shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 23, 2011\" width=\"538\" height=\"303\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil), Sept 5 (NNN-AGENCIES)  &#8212;\u00a0Police in Brazil&#8217;s Rio de Janeiro freed two hostages including a child during a raid Thursday on a drug trafficking ring that prompted an intense shoot-out in a low-income neighborhood, leaving eight gang members dead, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operation targeted the criminal organization known as Pure Third Command, including a trafficker nicknamed &#8220;the Coronel,&#8221; who was accused of murdering a woman in August, Rio&#8217;s police said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the operation, agents arrived at a property where six criminals were holding a pastor and a child hostage. The attackers resisted, and were neutralized,\u201d police said. \u201cTwo other criminals were neutralized at another point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hostages were released safely, police said. Authorities also arrested two people as they were trying to take control of a bus, which they were trying to use as a barricade to stop agents\u2019 access to the urban neighborhood, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the arrests, police also seized four rifles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intense exchange of fire between gang members and police disrupted trains and buses, shuttered schools and caused scenes of terror in Rio, local media reported. Dozens of children in a nearby daycare center were forced to lie down on the hallway floor as gunshots echoed outside, O Globo newspaper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shoot-out left students and workers &#8220;not knowing if they will arrive home alive,\u201d Rio state left-wing lawmaker Renata Souza said on X. \u201cWe cannot normalize terror and fear as policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities say the gang intimidates residents, expels rivals, attacks security agents and imposes its rule through curfews. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil), Sept 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0Police in Brazil&#8217;s Rio de Janeiro freed two hostages including a child during a raid Thursday on a drug trafficking ring that prompted an intense shoot-out in a low-income neighborhood, leaving eight gang members dead, police said. The operation targeted the criminal organization known as Pure Third Command, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":312021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312022,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312019\/revisions\/312022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/312021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}