BRAZIL - Brazil army ends Rio occupation

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Tuesday, 14 March 2006,

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Brazil

army ends Rio occupation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Tom Gibb

BBC News, Sao Paulo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The cache of

weapons was stolen two weeks ago

 

 

 

The

Brazilian army has ended a nine-day occupation of slums in Rio de Janeiro

aimed at recovering weapons stolen from an army base.

The occupation was carried out by 1,500 troops with support from

helicopters and tanks but failed to recover any of the weapons.

The army says it will continue to mount further operations to

find the weapons.

The occupation led to daily shootouts with armed drug gangs

which left several people injured.

The troops withdrew from the slums they had occupied, in some

places to the explosion of fireworks set off by members of drugs gangs.

Over the last nine days there have been frequent exchanges of automatic weapons

fire between the two with at least four people injured.

Despite the massive operations the soldiers did not find the 10

assault rifles stolen from a military base that they were looking for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4803944.stm

 

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