Police Storm Guatemala Juvenile Center To Free Guards
Muhammad Rameez Published March 21, 2017 | 08:35 AM
SAN JOSI PINULA, Guatemala, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Mar, 2017 ) : Guatemalan police stormed a juvenile detention center outside the capital Monday to free four guards taken hostage by inmates who had killed two others during a riot.
Journalists outside the Stage II facility for boys in the town of San Jose Pinula, to the east of Guatemala City, saw dozens of armed tactical officers rush inside the blue-and-white building surrounded by barbed wire fences, while others took positions on the roof.Yells and detonations were heard from inside during the raid.
President Jimmy Morales later tweeted: "Thanks to God and to the quick and efficient action of our @PNCdeGuatemala (Guatemala's national police force), the four guards held were rescued alive.
" The scene unfolded less than two weeks after 40 teenage girls died in a fire at a nearby overcrowded youth shelter in the same town.
Officials earlier had said two security guards at the Stage II juvenile detention center were killed and five were wounded by the inmates. One of those was released early Monday and taken to hospital.
Pablo Castillo, a spokesman for the national police, told AFP that negotiations to free the remaining four guards taken hostage had broken down. The Guatemalan prosecutor's office for human rights said about 40 members of the feared Barrio 18 gang had led the revolt Sunday in the Stage II juvenile center. Fire fighters put out a blaze that had started in part of the facility.
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