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Masked men have stormed a TV station in Ecuador, holding terrified staff at gunpoint - days after a state of emergency was declared in the country.

Some masked gunmen stormed TC Television studio in Ecuador and unleashed 15 minutes of horror but no one was killed in the attack.

A TV studio was taken over while there were other attacks following apparent prison escapes by two gang leaders.

New President Daniel Noboa authorized the military to neutralize powerful drug-linked gangs after they unleashed violence and terror across Ecuador

The South American country had been rocked by attacks since Monday night, but the assault on the newscast was seen in real time in thousands of homes across...

Gruesome footage has emerged from Ecuador over the last two days, with gangsters shown purportedly executing police officers and prison guards as the army rounds up cartel members.

Authorities have arrested 13 people in connection with the storming of a television studio in Ecuador, which is dealing with a huge spike in violence.

A cocktail of drugs, guns and migration is fuelling gang crime across Central and South America - and now reaching previously safe countries

It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when masked gunmen burst in, unleashing at least 15 minutes of threats and fear - all broadcast live.

The leader of Ecudaor's biggest and most violent gang, Los Choneros, Adolfo Macias, also known as Fito, vanished from his cell on Sunday as authorities deemed it a "prisoner's escape"