About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left more than 100 people dead, officials said.

Brazilian police said Wednesday the death toll stood at 119 killed, including four police officers, but Rio de Janeiro's state public defender's office told the Agence France-Presse that 132 people were killed in the raids.

Rio state Gov. Claudio Castro initially put the death toll at around 60 on Wednesday, but warned that the real figure was likely higher as more bodies were being taken to a morgue and counted.

Residents of a favela in Rio lined up more than 40 bodies at a plaza in their low-income neighborhood on Wednesday, a day after the operation, AFP reported. Th

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