
Ecuador security forces launch major prison operation
Gang boss Adolfo Macias, alias Fito, escaped from the Ecuadoran prison last week.
Gang boss Adolfo Macias, alias Fito, escaped from the Ecuadoran prison last week. The operation comes a day after the assassination of a prosecutor who was looking into the raid last week by gun-waving gangsters of a TV studio during a live broadcast.
Also on the programme; a damning report into a deadly mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022 has described the police response as a failure; and we hear from a medical charity worker in the city of Khan Younis, now the focus of Israel's ground and air offensive in Gaza.
(Picture: Military forces gather outside the prison in Ecuador. Credit: Getty Images)
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