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Gunmen storm Ecuadorian TV station during live broadcast
Updated On: 11 January, 2024 05:23 AM IST | Guayaquil | Agencies
On Tuesday, thousands of viewers tuned in to TC Television watched live as the men threatened presenters and studio hands with firearms and explosives.
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A masked armed person standing over journalists. Pic/AP
A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country’s spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape.
The imprisoned leader of the Los Choneros drug gang—Adolfo Macias, alias ‘Fito’—mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Sunday, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency. He had been serving a 36-year sentence for murder, drug trafficking and other crimes.
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