The United Nations Human Rights has raised alarm over high number of killings over the past week in Brazil, where at least 45 people were killed in different parts of the country.
According to the statement released by the World Agency on Thursday, expressed shock at the high killings during police operations allegedly aimed at combatting drug trafficking and organised crime.
The Agency called on authorities to conduct an independent, thorough and impartial investigation over this killings, adding that these figures make it one of the bloodiest weeks in many years.
According to the UN Human Rights, these killings follow other cases of police violence, alleged extrajudicial executions reported in recent years in circumstances that were never fully clarified and those responsible were not held to account.
“In recent years, overall deaths in police operations in Brazil have decreased to some extent, but deaths of Brazilians of African descent at the hands of police have increased the already existing gap is growing further”, the Agency said.
It was reported that atleast 45 people have been killed, including nine in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, in week long police operation against criminal gangs across Brazil.
The Rio raid came after days of deadly police crackdowns on drug trafficking gangs that have left 16 dead in Sao Paulo state and 19 killed in the northeastern state of Bahia.
Rio state police said officers had returned fire after coming under attack during a raid on a meeting of organized crime bosses in the Complexo da Penha group of favelas, on the city’s north side.
While authorities face mounting calls for independent investigations of alleged police abuses in Brazil, where the security forces have been accused of human rights violations in their war with heavily armed drug gangs.