Police personnel from a tactical unit take positions at one of the entrances to the Morro dos Macacos shantytownPhotograph: Helio Cardoso/AFP/Getty ImagesA bus burns in a street Photograph: Miguel Fernandez/EPAAn armoured police vehicle near two public buses set on fire by drug gangs trying to distract the police from their battle for the control of a slumPhotograph: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
A couple carrying a child leaving the Macacos slumPhotograph: Felipe Dana/APFirefighters work on two buses set on fire by drug dealers at Morro dos Macacos shantytownPhotograph: Helio Cardoso/AFP/Getty ImagesPolice officers extinguish a fire from the wreckage of a police helicopterPhotograph: Alexandre Brum/APThe remains of a police helicopter shot down by drug dealersPhotograph: Helio Cardoso/AFP/Getty ImagesFirefighters throw water to the remains of a police helicopterPhotograph: Felipe Dana/APPolice officers show bullet capsules found at the slumPhotograph: Felipe Dana/APMaria da Costa Gomes, bottom left, mourns over the covered body of her son Marcelo, killed during a police operation at the Morro dos Macacos slumPhotograph: Andre Mourao/AP
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