About 100 Ecuadorian prisoners escape amid powerful quake

  18 April 2016    Read: 862
About 100 Ecuadorian prisoners escape amid powerful quake
Some 100 inmates escaped from the El Rodeo prison in the Ecuadorian city of Portoviejo, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake caused damage at the facility, Ecuador
According to the minister, about 30 of the runaway prisoners were later returned to prison, some of them returning voluntarily.

“Infrastructure at the El Rodeo prison damaged. About 100 people escaped,” Zuniga said on Twitter.

​A powerful earthquake hit coastal Ecuador late on Saturday, with its epicenter near the town of Pedernales. Over 260 people died as result of the natural disaster, according to the country`s authorities.

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