Guatemala's president on Wednesday ousted his interior minister and two other officials after 20 members of the Barrio 18 gang, designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the United States, escaped from prison.

In a televised address, President Bernardo Arevalo said he had accepted the resignation of Interior Minister Francisco Jimenez and two deputy ministers amid political pressure following the gang members' disappearance from a jail near the capital, Guatemala City.

"I have decided to make changes to the team in charge of security tasks," he said.

On Sunday, while Arevalo was out of the country, a prison chief in the Central American nation announced that 20 Barrio 18 members had escaped from prison, without stating when.

One has since been rearrested.

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