Helicopter downed as 12 killed in Rio violence

2009/10/17 18:04:45 @Reuters: International News

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Drug traffickers shot down a police helicopter in Rio de Janeiro Saturday, killing two officers, and 10 suspected gang members were killed in the city's worst recent outbreak of violence, police said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=x0M5qCS4rvo:ZVWvsLDzi0o:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=x0M5qCS4rvo:ZVWvsLDzi0o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=x0M5qCS4rvo:ZVWvsLDzi0o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=x0M5qCS4rvo:ZVWvsLDzi0o:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=x0M5qCS4rvo:ZVWvsLDzi0o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/x0M5qCS4rvo" height="1" width="1"/
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