Violence in Brazil's Salvador city
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Editor's warning
Host city for the 2014 World Cup and a main Brazil tourist destination, Salvador has suffered an unprecedented wave of violence in recent months. See gallery
Brazilian drug gang
A Brazilian drug gang member nicknamed Pilintra, 26, points his guns as he sit on a hill overlooking a Salvador slum.
Patrolling the streets
A police officers patrols as a family crosses a street in the Nordeste de Amaralina slum complex in Salvador.
Police surveillance
At a command center in Salvador, a police officer watches live security cameras aimed at different points of the city where violence is common.
Gangsters under arrest
On patrol in the Nordeste de Amaralina slum complex in Salvador, police officers search youths for weapons and drugs
Weapons atop a hill
One of Brazil's main tourist destinations and a 2014 World Cup host city, Salvador is suffering from an unprecedented wave of violence. Its murder rate has increased more than 250 percent, according to the Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies.
Brazil's special forces
Special police forces are being trained how to operate against drug gangs in Salvador.
Removing Rodrigo
Police forensic workers remove a body, identified by police as that of a transvestite named Rodrigo, from the street where he was shot in the Alto do Cabrito slum of Salvador.
Covered in Salvador
Rodrigo's body, covered in a sheet, lies on the street where he was shot in the Alto do Cabrito slum.