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Added on the 03/11/2022 18:57:52 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images of armed soldiers on guard outside the Regional 8 prison complex, as Ecuador's army and police launch an operation in the nerve center of a drug war between the government and powerful criminal groups. IMAGES
Images of Ecuador's National Police removing the body of the prosecutor investigating an armed assault by gangsters on live television from a crime scene, after he was shot dead in Guayaquil. Images also show Cesar Suarez's car riddled with bullet holes on the street. IMAGES
Images of the scene where the prosecutor investigating the dramatic live-broadcast armed assault last week on an Ecuadoran television station was shot dead in Guayaquil. IMAGES
Ecuador's military continues search operations as the country was declared under a "state of emergency" following an escalation of gang violence, since the prison escape of one of the country's most powerful narco bosses. IMAGES
Dozens of military and police inspect vehicles on an avenue leading to the center of Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, after the government and drug mafias declared war on each other. The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels who use its ports to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. IMAGES