Alligators snapped up in drug raid
Two alligators have been seized in a crackdown on drug gangs.
The animals were used by traffickers to get rid of dead bodies and torture captured members of rival gangs in a Rio de Janeiro shanty town in Brazil.
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The animals were used by traffickers to get rid of dead bodies and torture captured members of rival gangs in a Rio de Janeiro shanty town in Brazil.
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