(MENAFN) At least four people were killed and 142 arrested on Saturday in a wide-ranging Brazilian police dragnet in Rio de Janeiro.
The operation was part of a crackdown against paramilitary organized criminal groups in the Santa Cruz neighborhood in west Rio.
Police raided a party attended by Wellington da Silva Braga, believed to be the leader of the city's largest paramilitary group.
The four victims were his bodyguards while Braga managed to have escaped.
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