Protest against slum violence hits Rio de Janeiro

Residents of violence-ravaged slums near the centre of Rio de Janeiro have torched two buses and set up barricades of flaming tyres on a main route through the city in anger over the deaths of two young men.

Protest against slum violence hits Rio de Janeiro

Residents of violence-ravaged slums near the centre of Rio de Janeiro have torched two buses and set up barricades of flaming tyres on a main route through the city in anger over the deaths of two young men.

The protest comes amid a turf war involving drug trafficking gangs that has killed at least 10 people in city slums in recent days.

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