At least 64 people have reportedly been killed in Rio de Janeiro’s worst-ever day of violence as more than 2,500 officers and special forces stormed an area of favelas near the city’s international airport that is considered the headquarters of one of Brazil ’s most powerful organised crime groups.

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead drew protests for excessive force Wednesday and calls for the Rio’s governor to resign.

Rio de Janeiro police have killed at least 119 people in a single raid against a medicine gang in low- income neighbourhoods of the city.