Some 2,700 soldiers have stormed a prison in Ecuador, retaking control of the facility as the death toll from a riot that started over the weekend rose to 31 inmates, authorities said.
or burnt alive, others shot as widespread corruption among guards allows inmates to obtain guns and explosives.
At least one of the dead had been beheaded, according to a government decree issued Tuesday announcing a 60-day state of emergency in all Ecuador's prisons. The public prosecutor's office on Tuesday announced the opening of a murder investigation over the deaths as well as a terrorism probe, due to the"explosions and the quantity of weapons and ammunition found inside the prison."
President Guillermo Lasso in a message on social media insisted the government"will never yield" to criminal violence. He posted photos of heavily-armed security forces standing guard over dozens of prisoners with naked torsos and hands tied. A committee appointed by Lasso to look into prison conditions last year found that the country's penitentiaries were akin to"torture centers."
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