Four military police officers have died in less than a month in clashes with criminals in communities in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The most recent victim was Sergeant Mauro Baptist of the Saints 43 years old, stationed in the Irajá battalion, who died this Sunday (7), when he was moved to interfere in a war between drug traffickers from rival factions that had already lasted more than 12 hours.
On Saturday night (6), drug traffickers from Comando Vermelho attempted to invade the Complexo da Pedreira, in the North Zone, controlled by Terceiro Comando Puro. In the action, three rifles were seized and three criminals ended up dead.
Last Wednesday (3), the PM captain Rafael Galvao da Costa 41 years old, was killed with a shot to the head, while participating in an action to suppress vehicle and cargo thefts, in Morro do Urubu, in Pilares, north of the city. The soldier had joined the corporation in 2009. He left behind a wife and two young children.
On June 11th, during an operation in the Maré favela complex, the sergeant of the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE), an elite troop of the Military Police, Jorge Galdino Cruz died from a gunshot to the head, during an operation in three communities in Maré to combat the theft of cars and cargo on Avenida Brasil taken to the community.
Now the sergeant Rafael Wolfgram Dias 37 years old, injured with his colleague, died six days later, at the Federal Hospital of Bonsucesso, as a result of injuries caused by rifle shots. Wolfgram was 37 years old and had been in the Military Police since 2008. He left behind a wife and a son.
Source: CNN Brasil
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