Authorities say criminal groups in Ecuador used explosives to damage a bridge in Ecuador after prison inmates took dozens of law enforcement officers hostage less than two days earlier
Criminal groups in Ecuador used explosives to damage a bridge in Ecuador on Friday, authorities said, demonstrating their grip on a South American country where prison inmates took dozens of law enforcement officers hostage less than two days earlier.
Consuelo Orellana, the governor of Azuay province, reported Friday that 44 of the hostages at a prison in the city of Cuenca had been released. The country’s correction system, the National Service for Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty, did not immediately provide an update on the status of the other 13 officers taken captive.
Pontón thinks the strikes are intended to generate fear among the population and influence politics. Ecuador is set to elect a president in an Oct. 15 runoff vote.
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