Police raid in Rio de Janeiro leaves at least 8 dead

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A police operation in a poor community in Rio de Janeiro on Friday left at least eight people dead, according to the state's military police. The raid in the Vila Cruzeiro favela was coordinated between Brazil's highway police and the military police. Officers seized automatic weapons, pistols, grenades and drugs, as well as kilos of drugs, according to a photograph published on the military police's Twitter page.