The government of El Salvador has sent 10,000 soldiers and police to seal off a town on the outskirts of the nation's capital to hunt for gang members.
The operation is one of the largest mobilisations yet in President Nayib Bukele's nine-month-old crackdown on street gangs that long extorted money from businesses and ruled many San Salvador neighbourhoods.
The troops blocked roads going in and out of the township of Soyapango, checking people's documents. Special teams went into the town looking for gang suspects.
