IT was mid-morning and at the foot of a sprawling hilltop shanty town in northern Rio de Janeiro, a sudden, hollow burst of gunfire rattled through the air sending bystanders scattering for cover.
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Shooting Rio
Since the city�s governor declared war on its gangs, a series of all-out assaults on their slum strongholds have taken place. risking their lives to record the battles are a new breed of bulletproof-vested photojournalists By Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
