The
first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been
moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele's
self-declared war on crime.
Tens
of thousands of suspected gangsters have been rounded up in the country
under a state of emergency following a spike in murders and other
violent crime.
The jail will eventually hold more than 40,000 people.
Pictures show the first massive group of inmates - tattooed and barefoot - being led led to the facility
President
Bukele tweeted that the first 2,000 people were transferred "at dawn,
in a single operation" to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism,
which he says is the largest jail in the Americas.
"This will be their new house, where they will live for decades, all mixed, unable to do any further harm to the population."
