■ United States
Construction worker trapped
A construction worker on a project to demolish a downtown parking garage was trapped early on Tuesday when concrete collapsed onto his tractor, officials said. The worker was conscious and talking but was seriously injured, with tons of concrete pinning his legs inside his front-end loader, said Mike Sandulak, a division chief with the Phoenix Fire Department. Firefighters used wooden shoring and air bags to stabilize the building to prevent further collapse, and were working to cut reinforcing bars in the concrete to remove it, Sandulak said. He said there was no estimate on when they may be able to free the worker.
■ Brazil
Rio police kill seven
Police killed seven suspected drug traffickers in a shootout in a Rio de Janeiro slum on Tuesday, bringing to at least 11 the number of people killed since a gangland turf war flared up there a few days ago. Rio police spokesman Colonel Leonardo Tavares said an elite police squad known as Bope was greeted with automatic fire when it raided the hillside Vidigal slum not far from Rio's famous beaches on Tuesday night following an anonymous telephone tip-off. Two police officers were wounded. "They fired back and shot seven lowlifes," he said.
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