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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Bryan Avelar in San Salvador and Santa Tecla, and Nina Lakhani

El Salvador reels as 6,000 people arrested in unprecedented crackdown

Men captured for alleged gang links are escorted by the national civil police during the state of emergency declared by the government in San Salvador last week.
Men captured for alleged gang links are escorted by police during the state of emergency in San Salvador last week. Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images

Distraught families across El Salvador are searching for information on the fate of their loved ones after almost 6,000 people were arrested in an unprecedented security crackdown over the past week.

Men, women and children have been rounded up across the Central American country since the government declared a state of emergency on 27 March, suspending constitutional rights including the presumption of innocence.

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