Ecuador enacts State of Emergency

Dan Collyns

02:19

The president of Ecuador has declared a state of internal armed conflict after an armed gang stormed an Ecuadorean TV station on Tuesday. 

This, coming a day after a general state of emergency was declared following the prison escape over the weekend of the country’s most dangerous gang leader.

But all the gunmen who broke into a public TV studio in Ecuador have been arrested, a police commander says.

CGTN’s Dan Collyns has the latest.

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