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A Brazilian policeman from the Action Battalion (BAC) searches for drugs as two boys look on, in a narrow street of the Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro on October 16, 2012.
Some 1,300 heavily armed police participated in raids on Jacarezinho and another shanty town, Manguinhos, Agence France Presse reports.
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