Vitor Abdala
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Rio – Brazilian Army headquarters in Rio de Janeiro (Comando Militar do Leste) reports that they have recovered the ten rifles and a pistol that were stolen from an Army unit on March 3.

For the last eleven days since the robbery, Army troops have invaded and scoured slums in Rio looking for the weapons. Their presence in the slums caused a number of skirmishes with drug traffickers resulting in firefights and explosions. There were civilian casualties.

Translation: Allen Bennett