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Added on the 06/06/2023 11:24:21 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Investigators, police are seen at the scene of suspected gang-related shooting leaving 11 dead. The mass shooting took place in Choloma, a town near San Pedro Sula, the country's second largest city. IMAGES
Police and fishermen carry bodies from a pier to the shore following a gang-related shooting at a small port in Esmeraldas province, in northern Ecuador. Nine people were killed in the attack authorities blamed on organized crime gangs. Interior Minister Juan Zapata told the Ecuavisa television channel that the attack was carried out by 30 heavily armed people and said it was related to "a fight between gangs, a territorial fight." IMAGES
Police and media stand by a roadside in Butler, Pennsylvania, close to the where Donald Trump was hit in the ear in an assassination attempt by a gunman at a campaign rally a day earlier. The 78-year-old former president was rushed off stage with blood streaked across his face after the shooting, while the shooter and a bystander were killed and two spectators critically injured. IMAGES
Ecuador's military continues search operations as the country was declared under a "state of emergency" following an escalation of gang violence, since the prison escape of one of the country's most powerful narco bosses. IMAGES
Images of soldiers patrolling the streets of Ecuador's capital, Quito, on armored vehicles after President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency. The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels that use its ports to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. IMAGES