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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
Images released by Ecuador's Armed Forces show military personnel and police officers carrying out a joint operation at the Zonal Penitentiary No 8 in the major port of Guayaquil. It comes amid the state of emergency declared in Ecuador on August 10, following the assassination of popular presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio ahead of the elections. The leader of one of Ecuador's most powerful criminal groups Los Choneros, known as 'Fito', is incarcerated at the penitentiary. IMAGES
At least 31 inmates died in a prison in Guayaquil, as fresh violence spread to the streets of the border province of Esmeraldas, in northwestern Ecuador. Vehicles were burned, soldiers deployed on the streets, and shops are closed. The government also said that inmates are holding 15 guards and two staffers hostage in a local jail in Esmeraldas. IMAGES
Security guard outside a prison in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil, where six inmates were found hanged in their cells, according to prison authorities. The Guayaquil prison complex has been the site of Ecuador's worst jail massacres in recent years caused by gang rivalries. IMAGES
At least 20 people, including civilians and prisoners, have been killed in fighting between security forces and gunmen who raided an Afghan jail in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said Monday. Outside the prison compound, heavily armed Afghan security forces stand by in armoured vehicles mounted with machine guns. IMAGES.