A 76-year-old woman and her daughter have been killed in a shootout between police and drug traffickers in a Rio de Janeiro slum, apparently hit by stray bullets.
Marlene Maria da Conceicao was shot in the neck in the doorway of her home on Friday in the Mangueira slum. Neighbors tell The Associated Press that her 42-year-old daughter Ana Cristina da Conceicao was also shot and killed when she tried to help her mother.
After the deaths, residents began protesting, blocking roads and burning a bus.
Military police were conducting an operation when the firefight began. It wasn't immediately clear whether the stray bullets came from shots by police or traffickers.
Violence has been on the rise in the hundreds of Rio slums amid an economic crisis in recent years.
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