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BREAKING: Gunmen storm TV channel in Ecuador taking hostages

And now more via @stillgray”: Reports of a mass shooting at the University of Guayaquil in Ecuador as sicarios show up on campus.

There’s now video of executions taking place, I won’t link it.

Update, from National Post;

Ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks, including the abductions of several police officers, in the wake of a powerful gang leader’s apparent escape from prison Sunday. President Daniel Noboa said Monday that he would declare a national state of emergency, a measure that lets authorities suspend people’s rights and mobilize the military in places like prisons.

Shortly after the gunmen stormed the TV station, Noboa issued another decree designating 20 drug trafficking gangs operating in the country as terrorist groups and authorizing Ecuador’s military to “neutralize” these groups within the bounds of international humanitarian law.

Ecuador’s national police chief announced a short time later that authorities had arrested all the masked intruders. Police commander Cesar Zapata told the TV channel Teleamazonas that officers seized the guns and explosives the gunmen had with them. He didn’t say how many people were arrested.

“This is an act that should be considered as a terrorist act,” Zapata said.

The government has not said how many attacks have taken place since they announced that Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macias, alias “Fito,” was discovered missing from his cell in a low security prison on Sunday. He was scheduled to be transferred to a maximum security facility that day.