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 gove...

Brazilian police and soldiers killed at least 60 suspects and arrested 81 in a massive Rio de Janeiro anti-gang raid targeting the Red Command, prompting human rights calls for an investigation.

Some 81 suspects were arrested, while 93 rifles and more than half a ton of drugs were seized, the state government said, adding that those killed “resisted police action.”