COPS have stormed a violent prison riot between rival gangs that left a prison guard among the 14 dead.

Terrifying footage shows police stormed through an Ecuadorian prison to end the brutal riot.

Video shows heavily armed officers charging into the prison as explosions are going off around them.

The officers were first confronted with one of their own.

The man called out: "I'm a police officer, please don't shoot", before he emerged from inside a cell.

The violent confrontation erupted between inmates from two criminal groups - Los Lobos and Los Choneros - in the South American prison on Monday.

They are the two biggest drug trafficking groups in Ecuador and were declared foreign terrorist organisations by the US in early September.

The violence broke out in the early hours

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