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  • 1/8/2024
In Ecuador, government authorities deploy a military contingent to warn of riots in several prisons after the escape of drug trafficker alias "Fito". teleSUR

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00:00 In Ecuador, government authorities deploy a military contingent to warn of riots in several
00:05 prisons after the escape of drug trafficker alias Fito. Authorities report multiple riots in the
00:11 prisons of El Inca in the capital Quito, in Cuenca, and there is police and military presence outside
00:17 the prisons of several penitentiaries. The disturbances occur while the government continues
00:22 with the search for the drug trafficker alias Fito, who escaped in the early hours of Monday
00:27 morning. At the same time, hundreds of police and military entered the regional prison located in
00:32 Guayaquil. The National Service of Attention to the People, the Private of Freedom, announced
00:38 that it will issue official information about the events in the prisons.

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