Ecuador: Gunmen storm television studio live on air

Ecuador: Gunmen storm television studio live on air

By Navitalai Naivalurua
Wednesday 10/01/2024
Source : BBC

Masked gunmen have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened terrified staff.

Employees were forced onto the floor during the broadcast by the public television channel TC in the city of Guayaquil before the live feed cut out.

The attackers were later seen leaving the studio, reportedly with several hostages. Police have made arrests.

A 60-day state of emergency began in Ecuador on Monday after a notorious gangster vanished from his prison cell.

It is unclear whether the incident at the TV studio in Guayaquil was related to the disappearance from a prison in the same city of the boss of the Choneros gang, Adolfo Macías Villamar, or Fito as he is better known.

In neighbouring Peru, the government ordered the immediate deployment of a police force to the border to prevent any instability crossing into the country.

The US has said it condemns the "brazen attacks" in Ecuador and is "co-ordinating closely" with President Daniel Noboa and his Ecuadorean government and stands "ready to assist".

Ecuador is one of the world's top banana exporters but also exports oil, coffee, cocoa, shrimp and fish products.

A surge in violence in the Andean nation, inside and outside its prisons, has been linked to fighting between drug cartels, both foreign and local, over control of cocaine routes to the US and Europe.

Source: BBC

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