“Thought it was my last day on earth”: Ecuadorian journalist testifies about armed raid during live broadcast

“I thought I would never see my children again,” says journalist Alina Manrique about the violent storming of the building of the Ecuadorian public channel TC Televisión. On Tuesday, about twenty heavily armed drug criminals invaded a news studio of the channel during a live broadcast. “They hunted us and threatened to kill us,” says Alina, who was taken hostage along with a dozen others.

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