Anti-Government Protesters Free Police Taken Hostage in Ecuador
A demonstrator holding an Ecuadorian flag walks past a fire in Quito on Oct. 9.
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Anti-government protesters in Ecuador freed ten police officers who’d been seized earlier Thursday, and also released more than two dozen journalists.
The police were grabbed off the streets around 9 a.m., and were paraded before a hostile crowd in a theater in downtown Quito. Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo said in an evening TV address that they had been released.