Carian mengenai topik prison riot

Prison inmates takes 11 guards hostage and sets fire to facilities in the crowded Tacumbu penitentiary.

Identifying victims is a challenge, as many of which were "charred or reduced" to ash, according to Yuri Mora.

Some had died from burns, while others had been shot, spokesperson Yuri Mora said.

President Guillermo Lasso attributes prison violence to fights between gangs over control of territory and drug trafficking routes.

The government has blamed disputes between drug trafficking gangs for control of prisons for the violence.

Ecuador is planning to pardon up to 2,000 inmates in order to relieve overcrowding at its detention centres.

An alert was activated in the Center for the Deprivation of Liberty Guayas N1 due to gunshots and explosions in several areas.

Indonesia has struggled to counter militancy in prisons as some extremists command influence in jails.

Moncayo says these were two groups vying for criminal leadership within the detention centres.

A brutal fight broke out in a prison in the Mexican Pacific resort of Acapulco on Thursday, leaving at least 28 inmates dead.

A prison riot has left three police officers and one security guard dead and another six people injured on Tuesday in the city of Victoria in the drug gang-ravaged, border state of Tamaulipas.

The death toll could rise as authorities get a clearer idea of the rebellion, sparked by a fight between rival drug gangs.

The riot ended after authorities reached a deal with the prisoners to transfer 850 inmates to other jails from the prison in Cascavel.

Inmates rioting for better facilities in a Brazilian jail killed four fellow prisoners, decapitating two of them, and took two guards hostage, officials said Sunday.

The aerial surveillance and road blocks mounted here yesterday were part of a crime-prevention programme and had nothing to do with Indonesian convicts who escaped during a prison riot in Medan.