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RIO DE JANEIRO — When police killed a drug kingpin in a Rio de Janeiro favela last month, armed men quickly surrounded a bus, forced the passengers to disembark and set it on fire in the middle of an avenue. “They boarded, told me to get the passengers off, and set it ablaze. It happened very fast,” 48-year-old driver Marcio Souza told AFP, still shaken by the ordeal. “It was a horrible feeling that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.” READ: What we do and don’t know about Rio’s deadly police raid Scenes like this are common in the city of […]... Keep on reading: Rio de Janeiro's gangs hijack buses to sow chaos in war with police
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