At least nine people were trampled to death and two others were injured early Sunday in the chaotic aftermath of a police raid in a poor neighborhood of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
A police spokesman said a unit of 38 military police had carried out an operation in the southern favela of Paraisopolis when two men on a motorcycle fired at the troops before fleeing in the direction of a nearby street party, where they continued firing, sparking the stampede.
The spokesman added that as police chased the two shooters into the street where the party was underway, they were met with a hail of stones and responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades.