The head, its hair dyed red, was severed from the body and found in dense vegetation near a Rio favela, some 24 hours after Brazil's deadliest-ever police operation.
It belonged to 19-year-old Iago Ravel. His mother has no doubt her son was executed by Brazil's security forces.
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