Armed Gunmen Storm Ecuador TV Station

(warning: distressing) Masked intruders wielding guns and explosives stormed a state-owned TV station in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on January 9, taking staff members hostage and making threats in response to President Daniel Noboa's crackdown on organized crime. Noboa has since ordered that officials ‘neutralize’ a number of criminal groups across the country.

No one was killed in the incident, and the 13 attackers have since been arrested. Authorities reportedly plan to charge the intruders with terrorism.

‘I am still in shock,’ Alina Manrique, a TV station employee who was present for the attack, told the Associated Press. ‘Everything has collapsed ... All I know is that it's time to leave this country and go very far away.’

The TV station attack is the latest in a string of recent violent incidents that have rocked Ecuador following the apparent prison escape of high-profile gang leader Adolfo ‘Fito’ Macías in Guayaquil. In recent days, the country has seen a series of explosions, police kidnappings, and killings. #WatchThis
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