2 dead in shootout with Brazil police, drug gang

Two suspected drug traffickers were killed and three others were injured during a shootout with police in a Rio de Janeiro slum frequently visited by tourists, authorities said Monday. A police officer was killed in the same slum in what appeared to be an unrelated attack.
In one of the incidents, a firefight in the Alemao complex of slums hugging the highway that leads to Rio's international airport began late Sunday night when officers on patrol were met with heavy gunfire, AP quoted the police as saying in a statement.
Two gang members were injured in the exchange and rushed to a local hospital, where they later died. Two police officers and an adolescent boy sustained injuries.
Earlier on Sunday, in an apparently unrelated attack, a 30-year-old police officer in Alemao was shot in the face when he was surprised by a group of armed traffickers. He died in the hospital Monday morning.