After what is being criticized as Brazil’s latest example of the excessive use of force, at least 50 bodies of mostly topless young men lay on the ground in Penha on early Wednesday morning. Penha was one of two sites targeted in Rio’s deadliest ever police operation.

Rio’s state Gov. Claudio Castro said in a video posted on X that 60 criminal suspects were “neutralised” during the massive raid that he called the biggest such operation in the city's history.