Ecuador declares prison emergency after 116 killed in riot

Women wait for information about relatives who are inmates at Litoral prison in Ecuador following the violence (Angel DeJesus/AP)

Ecuador’s president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system following a battle among gang members in a jail in which at least 116 people were killed and 80 injured.

Officials, who described the incident as the worst prison massacre in the country’s history, said at least five of the dead were found to have been beheaded.