Residents of a Rio de Janeiro community lined up their dead in harrowing scenes midweek after Brazil's bloodiest police raid killed at least 119 people, spotlighting the city's controversial war against drug gangs entrenched in poor neighbourhoods.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called for action against organised crime that does not endanger police or civilians, as Brazil's security challenges were laid bare just days before it hosts COP30 UN climate talks in the Amazon.
However, families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a
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