At least 132 people were killed in what authorities described as Brazil’s largest police operation against drug gangs, officials said on Wednesday. In Rio de Janeiro, residents lined a street with dozens of bodies recovered overnight following the raids. The bodies of the men were placed in a single row along the pavement of a square on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Residents said many were stripped to their underwear to help relatives identify them, while others were covered with bedsheets. Brazil's state police said the raids, aimed at dismantling a major drug gang, had been planned over two months and were intended to force suspects into a forested hillside, where a special operations unit was positioned to intercept them. “The elevated lethality of the operation was ex

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