El Salvador town under siege after police officer's death.

El Salvador has deployed 5,000 soldiers and 500 police to surround a town in the northwest of the country to arrest those responsible for the suspected gang killing of a police officer. President Nayib Bukele has suspended constitutional rights in a state of exception that allows police to swiftly arrest and jail suspected gang members while suspending their right to a lawyer and court approval of preliminary detention. The policy has been criticized by human rights groups, but is credited with cutting high rates of violent crime and supported by the majority of the population.