Overview
- Governor Cláudio Castro ordered more than 2,500 officers into the Complexo do Alemão and Complexo da Penha to target the Comando Vermelho.
- Officials report roughly 81 arrests and seizures including around 90 long guns and more than half a ton of drugs.
- The death toll, which includes four police officers, has climbed as bodies are recovered, with some reports citing up to 138, and alleged leader Edgar Alves Andrade remains at large.
- Gunmen used drones adapted to drop explosives, assault rifles and hijacked buses to block access, disrupting schools, transport and some flights at Galeão airport.
- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he was not informed and expressed shock, the UN urged inquiries, federal authorities dispatched forensic teams and the Força Nacional, and rights groups alleged execution-style killings.