Gang attacks leave 81 dead in Brazil

Heavily-armed police guarded the deserted streets of South America’s largest city in Brazil through the night, after four days of unprecedented gang attacks that left 81 people dead.

“We’re at war with them. There will be more casualties, but we won’t back down,” state military police chief Col. Elizeu Teixeira Borges said of the gangs that launched a spree of attacks on police stations, bars and banks in response to the prison transfers of their leaders.