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Ecuador says 57 prison hostages released
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Ecuadorian authorities announced Friday the release of 50 guards and seven police officers who were taken hostage for more than a day, in what the government described as a response by criminal groups to its efforts to regain control of several large correctional facilities in the South American cou…
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Ecuador's fragile security situation was underscored Thursday by a series of car bombings and the hostage-taking of more than 50 law enforcement officers inside various prisons, just weeks after the…
Inmates at a penitentiary in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca are holding hostage 50 guards and seven police officers, the Agence France-Presse reported late Thursday citing Interior Minster Juan Zapata.
Ecuador's attempt to clean up its gang-controlled prisons has led to a dramatic turn of events with inmates taking several prison guards and police officers hostage.
Ecuadorian authorities announced Friday the release of 50 guards and seven police officers who were taken hostage for more than a day, in what the government described as a response by criminal groups to its efforts to regain control of several large correctional facilities in the South American cou…
Ecuadorian authorities announced Friday the release of 50 guards and seven police officers who were taken hostage for more than a day, in what the government described as a response by criminal groups to its efforts to regain control of several large correctional facilities in the South American cou…
By Ana María Cañizares, Marlon Sorto and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Fifty prison guards and seven police officers have been freed after being taken hostage by inmates held in six prisons across Ecuador, authorities said, part of a coordinated protest against security operations being conducted in…
QUITO, Ecuador >> Ecuadorian authorities announced Friday the release of 50 guards and seven police officers who were taken hostage for more than a day, in what the government described as a response by criminal groups to its efforts to regain control of several large correctional facilities in the …
Several guards and other officials had been held hostage after an attempt to raid prisons for weapons. The country was rocked by multiple explosions in less than 48 hours.
Dozens of guards and seven police officers, who were held as hostages by inmates for more than a day, have been released, according to authorities in Ecuador.
Inmates in six Ecuadoran prisons have released the 50 guards and seven police officers who had been taken hostage in the country's latest spasm of narcotics-related mayhem, the state prison institute…
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