Ninth policeman dies in Guatemala gang riots, attacks

President Bernardo Arevalo declared a 30-day emergency on Sunday after riots in three prisons and a wave of police killings which rocked the gang-plagued Central American nation. The state of emergency took immediate effect, despite requiring approval by the opposition-controlled Congress. The unrest began when gang-affiliated inmates took 45 guards and a psychiatrist hostage on Saturday in three prisons to demand that gang leaders be transferred from a maximum-security prison to more lenient facilities.