 Brazilian authorities have arrested 11 police officers over the killing of 30 people in a shooting rampage on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, the state security chief has said. The Thursday night slaughter, which is suspected to be a response to a crackdown on corrupt police officers, was the worst massacre in more than a decade in the seaside city. The armed men shot dead men, women and children at random in the working class district of Baixada Fluminense on Rio's rough north side. Security chief Marcelo Itagiba said not all the 11 prisoners, members of the state military police force, had necessarily taken part in the killings but they needed to explain what they were doing in the Baixada Fluminense area on that day. Another police officer is still being sought. |