Two hundred detainees, who escaped Monday, May 10 during deadly riots in a prison in northern Ecuador, were "
recaptured
" by the security forces, Ecuadorian police announced on Tuesday.
"
So far, 200 prisoners have been recaptured
" by the security forces, thanks to police and army patrols and checkpoints, police chief of operations Gen. Geovany Ponce.
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According to the latest official report, at least 44 prisoners died in clashes between two rival gangs on Monday in Bellavista prison, in the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, about 80 km west of Quito.
More than 200 prisoners escaped as a result of this violence, according to statements by the police, who did not specify their exact number.
She had reported Monday evening of 112 "
recaptured
" detainees, and 108 others still in the wild.
On Tuesday, desperate and in tears, dozens of parents and relatives of prisoners were still waiting outside Bellavista prison awaiting news of their loved ones, AFP noted.
Soldiers and soldiers were deployed in and around the establishment.
AFP also observed men in uniform rounding up around 80 detainees believed to have been recaptured in recent hours.
Horrifying videos are circulating on social media showing a pile of bloody, naked and mutilated bodies on the hemoglobin-covered floor of a common room.
Or corpses littering the corridors of the prison, next to mattresses that the attackers probably tried to set on fire.