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Ecuador prison warden shot dead as nation votes on security referendum

Assailants shot dead the chief warden of a prison in western Ecuador on Sunday as voters went to polls to decide on tougher measures against organised crime, authorities said. Damian Parrales, chief of the El Rodero prison in coastal Manabi state, "was victim of an attack that unfortunately cost him his life," the national prison authority said in a statement.Ecuadoran prisons have become nerve centers for organised crime groups and a bloody battleground that has claimed the lives of more than 4