Ecuador’s Police have apprehended suspects involved in the attack on TC Television in Guayaquil, where individuals where threatened during a live broadcast.
Ecuador’s Police made this known on their X account late on Tuesday.
Writing in Spanish the police said, :As a result of the intervention at #tctelevision #GYE, our police units have so far managed to apprehend several individuals and evidence linked to the crime.
” Further details will follow.”
Ecuador declared a state of emergency on Monday after a drug lord escaped from maximum security detention and unrest broke out at several prisons in the violence-plagued country.
President Daniel Noboa announced a 60-day mobilisation of soldiers in Ecuador’s streets and prisons as a manhunt was under way for gangster Jose Adolfo Macias, alias “Fito.”
The President said there would also be a curfew from 11pm to 5am daily.
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