The death toll confirmed by Rio Governor Claudio Castro on Tuesday, which included four police officers, was more than twice Rio's most deadly previous police operation.

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.

Bodies piled up in poor neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday as police launched their biggest ever raids on the city's drug traffickers, leaving at least 64 dead in war-like scenes.As many as 2,

Rio de Janeiro has been gripped by some of its fiercest urban violence in years after large-scale police operations against the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) criminal organization ignited running gun battles,