army in rocinha

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 14 March 2006: Army troops with an armored car guard the Rocinha shantytown during an operation looking for stolen weapons in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Tuesday, March 14, 2006. The Brazilian army again surrounded the city's largest shantytown Tuesday, resuming the search for weapons stolen from its army barracks and denying it had planned to break off the effort. About 200 soldiers accompanied by special operations police sealed off the entrances to Rocinha, a sprawling mountainside shantytown perched over some of Rio de Janeiro's wealthiest neighborhoods.The troops were searching for 10 assault rifles and one pistol that were stolen March 3 by seven gunmen wearing army-issue camouflage gear and ninja masks. Felipe Dana/Photonews

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