Police say they have resumed control of a prison in Ecuador which has been the scene of a deadly riot. Fighting between rival gangs has left at least 118 people dead.
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General Tannya Varela said Ecuador police fully recaptured Litoral prison, in the port city of Guayaquil, late Thursday after three days of rioting that left 118 dead and 86 injured.
Police on Thursday gained control of an Ecuador prison where rioting has left at least 118 inmates dead, some of them decapitated, as rival drug gangs went to war armed with guns and grenades.
Another 86 inmates were injured, six of them critically, the country’s prisons authority said, calling it one of the deadliest prison battles in South American history.
The riot broke out on Tuesday at a prison complex in the port city of Guayaquil between prisoners believed to have links to Mexican drug gangs mainly the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels.
By late Thursday, police commander Tannya Varela told