Three inmates dead in latest Ecuador prison riot

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Three inmates dead in latest Ecuador prison riot

GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), April 5 — Three inmates died in Ecuador yesterday in the latest burst of violence in its maximum security prison system, the government said. The SNAI agency said the latest rioting broke out at La Roca prison in the port city of Guayaquil, a growing nerve centre in the global drug trade. After the fighting erupted, prison agents, police and the military activated security protocols with which “control was retaken,” the SNAI…