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Inmates stand on the roof of the Turi prison, in Ecuador’s southern city of Cuenca, as they hold prison guards hostage inside, while police forces gather outside the facilities. One of the country's most feared gangsters is believed to have escaped from prison on January 7 before an operation at the prison where he was serving his sentence, according to authorities. Following the escape of the head of the Los Choneros drug gang, incidents have been reported in several prisons nationwide. IMAGES
Images of police deployed in front of the prosecutor's office in Quito, Ecuador, as former vice-president Jorge Glas awaits transfer to prison. Mexico says it has cut diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police stormed the country's embassy in Quito to arrest Glas who was taking refuge there. 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
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
Peruvian police officers in the capital Lima board a plane bound for the northern border with Ecuador, after Peru put the border under a state of emergency following the security crisis that erupted in the neighboring country. Ecuador's president has given orders to "neutralize" criminal gangs after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio, as bandits threatened random executions on a second day of terror in the country. IMAGES
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