Between tears and the scent of death, neighbours of a favela in the north of Rio de Janeiro lined up more than 50 bodies in a square this Wednesday – a day after the lethal police operation against drug-trafficking that, according to the state public defender’s office, killed at least 132 people.

A reporter for the AFP news agency witnessed a decapitated body, another deceased with its head crushed, and other locals reported “executions.”

The operation, the most deadly in Rio’s history, had the objective of shutting down Comando Vermelho

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