 Criminal groups set at least 35 buses on fire in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro on October 23, according to the industry group that represents bus companies, after police killed a crime boss in an operation, the attacks on buses were concentrated in the west of the city, where rival criminal groups are fighting for territorial control. They came after a police operation that killed the nephew of the leader of the state's largest militia, according to the police.Rio's so-called militias, often composed of current and former police officers, have become one of the region's largest security threats. Originally set up as self-defense forces for poor neighborhoods blighted by drug gangs, they have now metastasized into criminal outfits operating in multiple different rackets. All the fire taking place, this crime act, that took place on the afternoon of this second Friday, people going to work, now returning to work, and look at the situation in the northwest of Rio de Janeiro, 21 buses burning in a riot, a repression, a riot of a militia by the death of the nephew of a militia. A peace, they call it a cemetery peace, right? When you have that crime going on, the State is making a release seal.