WRAP Police and army use armoured vehicles to move in on alleged drug gangs

(28 Nov 2010) AP TELEVISION 1. Tracking shot of helicopter passing overhead 2. Two armoured vehicles drive past 3. Police officers leading captured man 4. Mid of two armed police officers running 5. Tracking shot of armoured vehicle driving down road 6. Pull back from long of parked armoured vehicle 7. Long of armed officers gathering at street corner 8. Mid of armed officers with weapons raised 9. Wide of armed officers exiting police bus and running across street AP TELEVISION 10. Wide of Getulio Vargas hospital 11. Mid shot of hospital workers treating patient delivered by ambulance (unrelated to police raid) 12. Ambulance arriving at hospital 13. Tracking shot of 16-year-old boy hit by stray bullet being rolled out of ambulance on gurney 14. Mid shot of State Health Secretary Sergio Cortes 15. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Sergio Cortes, Rio de Janeiro State Health Secretary: "This operation does not have a set time limit. It is a great movement of police officers that could have ended with many deaths and injuries and, fortunately, has not so far." 16. Ambulance leaving hospital 17. Police car arriving outside hospital 18. Various of police officer and paramedic removing from boot of car the body of unidentified drug trafficker killed during police operation 19. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Corporal Telles, military police officer: "We found an R-15 rifle which is at the police station now." 20. Mid shot of burns victim Antonio Bandeiras wheeled on gurney to ambulance 21. Mid shot of Bandeiras's relatives 22. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Maria da Farias, wife of burns victim: "He tried to escape when the fire started, but he tripped and fainted." 23. Pan of police officers arriving at high point in Alemao with police and Brazilian flags 24. Mid of policemen getting ready to raise flags 25. Mid shot of police officers raising Brazilian flag 26. Pull back from mid shot of Alemao STORYLINE: Rio de Janeiro police backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles invaded a shantytown complex long held by drug traffickers on Sunday, quickly taking over the key gang stronghold in an historic victory meant to help make the city safe for the 2016 Olympics. Black-clad officers poured into the Alemao shantytown complex just after sunrise amid heavy fire, with helicopters flying low overhead to support the men on the ground. The operation was crucial to the city's campaign to push criminals out of the shantytowns where they have ruled with impunity, an effort to secure Rio before the city hosts World Cup matches in 2014 and the 2016 Olympics. The operation came after gangs unleashed a week of violence in the city, with more than 100 cars and buses set on fire and at least 35 deaths, mostly of suspected traffickers. Police said they captured large amounts of weapons, ammunition and drugs in the complex, which includes a dozen shantytowns that are home to at least 85,000 people. Police and troops moved into the complex inside armoured vehicles as residents watched from their windows in shacks packed along the hills. Hundreds of soldiers in camouflage and elite and regular police had been surrounding the Alemao since Saturday night, sheltering behind the armoured vehicles. At least one trafficker was killed in the raid. Corporal Telles from Rio de Janeiro's 9th military police batallion said the victim, who was not identified by police or medical personnel, was found with an R-15 rifle and several kilograms of cocaine and marijuana. Telles said the victim was killed after he shot at police from a roof in the shantytown. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...