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Police Killed in Complexo do Alemão UPP

By Jay Forte and Tracy Woodley, Contributing Reporters

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – An attack by suspected gang members in the Complexo do Alemão favela community in Zona Norte (North Zone) resulted in the death of a police officer, the first to be killed in a pacified favela. Officer Fabiana Aparecida de Souza, age 30, at the Nova Brasília UPP (Police Pacification Unit) was fatally shot during a firefight Monday, July 23rd.

Officer de Souza, according to a report by O . . .

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