Violence continues to increase in Ecuador. Men broke into a Guayaquil television station during a live broadcast on Tuesday, January 9, and detained journalists and other workers. The police forces arrived at the scene and freed the workers, while arresting 13 assailants. President Daniel Noboa declared an “internal armed conflict” in the country and declared about twenty armed groups as “terrorist organizations.”
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Shocking scene on Ecuadorian television. Armed men entered the TC television channel this Tuesday, in the city of Guayaquil in southwestern Ecuador, and subdued its staff during a live broadcast.
Follow the main news about the intense day of violence in the South American country below:
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16:30 (BOG) The Ecuadorian Police release the detained people and capture the assailants
After having surrounded the television station, the Ecuadorian police forces entered the building and managed to free the detained personnel, who are safe and healthy. The police also captured the 13 men who broke into the canal.
“As a result of the intervention in TC Television, our police units have so far managed to arrest several subjects and evidence linked to the crime,” the national police published on its X account.
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16:00 (BOG) President Noboa declares “internal armed conflict” in Ecuador
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, declared an “internal armed conflict” in the country and ordered the Armed Forces to take action to fight against criminal organizations.
“I have signed the executive decree declaring internal armed conflict,” Noboa wrote in a message on his X account, in which he said he named transnational organized crime groups “as terrorist organizations and belligerent non-state actors.”
Ecuador is in a situation of great tension due to car explosions in different cities, attacks with explosives, kidnapping of police officers and retention of penitentiary agents in the prisons themselves. The wave of violence was unleashed after the escape from prison of the leader of the 'Los Choneros' gang, Adolfo Macías, alias 'Fito', and the state response with a state of emergency decreed the day before.
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15:30 (BOG) Hooded men break into the TC Televisión channel
In the images, several hooded men with weapons were observed holding channel workers on the floor, demanding that they ask the Police live to leave the place.
“Don't shoot, please, don't shoot,” a woman shouted in the middle of the shots, while the assailants, armed with pistols, rifles and some with homemade grenades, beat and forced the workers to lie on the ground.
One of them was hooded, others wore hoods and caps. Others had their faces uncovered and were recording themselves with their mobile phones, while several of them used the fingers of both hands to make the usual signs of criminal gangs linked to drug trafficking in Ecuador.
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