A shocking video of gun-wielding goons has surfaced on a live television channel.
After this incident, it has been decided to demobilize the country’s army.
The matter is of South American country Ecuador. Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa on Tuesday ordered a military operation against the country’s powerful criminal groups.
Gunmen wearing hoods have attacked a television studio and threatened to kill security forces and civilians.
Let us tell you that this incident has come at a time when one of the most powerful criminal bosses of Ecuador has escaped from jail.
Riots are breaking out in jails across the country after this dangerous criminal disappeared from his cell. Seeing the worsening situation, the government has declared a state of emergency in Ecuador.
A large number of security forces are carrying out a special operation throughout Ecuador. They are attempting to capture Adolfo Macias, aka Fito, the convicted leader of the powerful drug gang Los Choneros.
It is notable that in recent years, rival gangs associated with Mexican and Colombian cartels have sought to establish control over Ecuador, which has long been a peaceful haven between Colombia and Peru, the largest cocaine exporter.
Due to this competition, violence has erupted.
“I have ordered the armed forces to launch a military operation to neutralize these groups,” President Noboa wrote on social media. His comments came as attackers armed with guns and grenades attacked TC Television’s studios in the port city of Guayaquil, where amid gunfire a woman was heard saying: “Don’t shoot, please don’t shoot.” ” The intruders threw frightened crew members to the ground, and one man could be heard screaming in apparent pain as the studio lights were turned off. “Please, they came to kill us,” a TC employee told AFP in a WhatsApp message. God save us. The criminals are at large.”
After about 30 minutes of chaos, officers were seen entering the studio as someone called out that “one of their colleagues is injured.”
Earlier on Tuesday, gangsters kidnapped police officers and detonated explosives in several cities in response to a 60-day state of emergency and nightly curfew declared by Noboa.
Noboa, 36, was elected in October on a pledge to fight rampant drug-related crime and violence in the South American country.
Their country was once considered a bastion of peace, but has now become an important base for the cocaine trade from the US and Europe. He vowed on Monday to bring the fight to the cartels after a powerful gang leader, Jose Adolfo Macias (Fito), escaped from prison the previous day.
After this, the gang counterattacked on Tuesday. Authorities reported several explosions and said seven police officers had been abducted.
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