No less than one police officer has been killed and 14 different folks have been injured throughout an operation to regain management of the Tacumbú penitentiary, Paraguay’s largest jail, following a violent riot that broke out in October, La Prensa Latina reports. Through the riot, members of the Rotela Clan, a company linked to drug trafficking in Paraguay, set the jail ablaze and held 22 law enforcement officials hostage for over 15 hours. Monday’s operation, which started earlier than daybreak and concerned over 1,200 law enforcement officials in addition to greater than 1,000 navy personnel, was ordered to regain management of the jail and switch its inmates to at the very least eight different penitentiaries throughout the nation. Armando Javier Rotela, the alleged chief of the Rotela clan, was reportedly captured in the course of the operation. The top of the Nationwide Police’s anti-kidnapping division, Commissioner Nimio Cardozo, informed EFE that at the very least 14 folks – two troopers and 12 police – have been injured.
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