Tourists watch the sunrise from Morro Dois Irmaos above the Vidigal favela

Tourists watch the sunrise from Morro Dois Irmaos above the Vidigal favela

 Pablo PORCIUNCULA

Tourists flocked to an iconic Rio de Janeiro viewpoint on Tuesday, a day after a gunfight between police and drug gangs in a nearby favela trapped over 200 people on the hilltop.

Visitors were stranded for about two hours on Morro Dois Irmaos -- or Two Brothers Hill -- on Monday while fighting raged on a hillside below them between police and members of Comando Vermelho, one of Brazil's largest criminal groups.

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