These are pictures from the prison transfer of the world's most dangerous gang members
Authorities in El Salvador moved prisoners from two of the country's hyper-violent gangs into the same prison for the first time, in a bid to stop them running operations from behind bars.
Previosuly they kept members of the same gang in the same prison, but with the new move,they have mixed members of rival gangs ,Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha.
Images show handcuffed members from the notorious Barrio 18 gang being marched into buses that will be taking them from Izalco jail to San Francisco Gotera in order to curb gang violence.
In all 1,177 Barrio 18 members were transferred.The policy of mixing the gangs together came about when officials realised that gangs were conducting criminal activity from within prison walls.
In January, the Salvadoran government authorized the police to shoot 'without any fear of suffering consequences' if threatened by gang members.
due to increase in Violence in El Salvador over the past year after a 2012 truce between Barrio 18 - also known as 18th Street Gang, because it started in the 1960s near 18th Street in LA's Rampart District - and MS-13 started to unravel.
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