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Policemen take part in an operation to retake control of the prison in Guayaquil where a riot left at least 116 inmates dead. (Ecuador´s National Police/AFP) GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador -- Police gained control of an Ecuador prison Thursday where rioting has left at least 118 inmates dead, some of them deca
GUAYAQUIL, Oct 1 — Police gained control of an Ecuador prison Thursday where rioting has left at least 118 inmates dead, some of them decapitated, as rival drug gangs went to war armed with guns and grenades. Another 86 inmates were wounded, six of them critically, according to Ecuador’s...
General Tannya Varela said Ecuador police fully recaptured Litoral prison, in the port city of Guayaquil, late Thursday after three days of rioting that left 118 dead and 86 injured.
Relatives of Ecuador inmates clamor for news after bloody riot
Six inmates were beheaded as rival gangs armed with guns and grenades went to war.. Read more at straitstimes.com.