Ecuador: Scores of prisoners die as rival gangs clash
By DW
15 November 2021 |
3:27 pm
Drug trafficking gangs went on a killing spree in the same Ecuadorean prison where 119 people died in September. Ecuador plans to release some prisoners at the overcrowded facility.
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