Police deployed 2,500 officers to combat Comando Vermelho group, facing gunfire and drone-launched grenades, says Governor Castro - Anadolu Ajansı

EADaily, . At least 60 people were killed in Rio de Janeiro during the storming of the favela area near the city's international airport, which is considered the headquarters of one of Brazil's most powerful organized crime groups.

According to the Rio de Janeiro Public Prosecutor’s Office, the complexes are strategic for drug and weapons trafficking and house part of the Comando Vermelho’s expansion project. The group has 67 indicted members, including leaders Edgar Alves de Andrade, known as Doca, and Pedro Paulo Guedes, known as Pedro Bala.

Opened in 1950, after 75 years of history it could stop being state property, since the Government of Rio de Janeiro has announced its intention to sell it in order to pay off a huge debt owed to the federal jurisdiction and thus reduce the deficit it generates.