Nine people were injured in a shootout recorded this Sunday, Christmas Eve, between police and suspected criminals on an avenue in a Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro, Official sources reported this.

In accordance with Military policepolice car stopped the vehicle leaving “with suspicion” Favela complex Mare and “immediately” the men who were in the car carried out firearms fired at agents.

This is where the “confrontation” with the agents began, until the suspects “managed to escape” as the organization said in a note.

At all, “During the attack, nine people were injured by gunfire.“and transferred to Bonsucesso General Hospital. According to local media reports, Two of the victims are in serious condition.

Supposed criminals shot “three cars” driving at that moment along Avenida Brasil, where the incident took place, and a “patrol car” of the Rio military police.

Brazilian authorities We agreed on a platform for starting expert work for the purpose of power identify those responsible.

Police surveillance in the region has already intensified since Saturday, afterattempted car theft at another location on Avenida Brasil nearby where the shooting took place this Sunday.

Civil police said in a note that he had opened investigation to find out the facts.

Almost seven million inhabitants Rio de Janeiro is the most touristic city in Brazil. but also one of more violent due to frequent shootouts between drug gangs, vigilante groups and security forces.

Governor of Rio de Janeiro Claudio Castro, who protects “iron fist” policy against violence, During his mandate, he proposed to catch three big bosses of organized crime in the city: the police. “Zinho” and Danilo Tanderaand drug dealer Wilton Carlos Rabello Quintanilla, pseudonym “Abelya”.

(according to information from EFE)