Prisoners at penitentiary in Cuenca city are holding 50 guards and seven police officers as hostages, says Interior Minister Juan Zapata.
Mass hostage-taking comes a day after hundreds of soldiers, and police officers carried out an operation to search for weapons, ammunition and explosives in one of the country's main penitentiaries in the Andean city of Latacunga. / Photo: Reuters
Prisoners at a penitentiary in the Ecuadoran city of Cuenca are holding hostage 50 guards and seven police officers, Interior Minister Juan Zapata has said. "We are concerned about the safety of our officials," he said at a press conference on Thursday in the capital, Quito. The mass hostage-taking came a day after hundreds of soldiers, and police officers carried out an operation to search for weapons, ammunition and explosives in one of the country's main penitentiaries in the Andean city of Latacunga in the south.
SNAI, the state office in charge of prisons, said earlier in the day that the hostage-taking was a reprisal for that operation.
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