Brazil’s military police kill leader of a drug trafficking group in a Rio favela

Brazilian military police have killed the leader of a drug trafficking group in a Rio de Janeiro favela as well as two other suspected criminals. Authorities said Tuesday a fierce shootout broke out after Rio’s military police found Thiago da Silva Folly in a bunker in the Mare complex of low-income neighborhoods. Folly was killed, while another two people were wounded and taken to a hospital, but later died from their injuries.