All remaining hostages seized in Ecuador prison riots freed • FRANCE 24 English
It’s the news their friends and family have been desperately awaiting after being held hostage for several days these guards made their way out of the esaral Dust prison there among 178 prison officials who had been held by inmates since Monday at seven prisons in Ecuador all staff have now been released
According to the snai prisons agency in a post on social media president Daniel naboa celebrated the news congratulations to the Patriotic professional and brave work of the Armed Forces National Police and the SN for achieving the release of the prison security and surveillance body and the administrative staff retained in the
Prisons it comes as the country grapples with a surgeon Violence waged by drug gangs that saw the on air storming of a TV station earlier this week after the apparent jailbreak of Adolfo msas leader of One of Ecuador’s most notorious drug gangs naboa declared a state of emergency since then soldiers and police
Have been out in force across the country and have arrested hundreds of people earlier in the week naboa laid out plans for two new high security prisons in an effort to address the country’s prison system crisis vowing to crack down on drug related crime and violence he has also pledged tougher
Laws and more extraditions of hardened criminals but the president has a steep hill to climb in the South American country that has become a key Transit point for drug trafficking in recent years
Neary 180 prison guards and civil servants had been taken hostage by rioting inmates after President Daniel Noboa launched a military crackdown on criminal groups this week, sparking a deadly confrontation with narco gangs in the South American country. All remaining 136 prison guards and administrative workers who were seized as hostages during prison riots in Ecuador were freed on Saturday night.
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