Ecuadorean president rescued after siege

The Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa speaks to striking police officers from inside the main headquarters of the national police Photograph: Guillermo Granja/Reuters

Correa speaks to a demonstrator during a protest of police officers and soldiers Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP

Correa leaves a regiment of police during a protest of police and military in Quito Photograph: Jose Jacome/EPA

Ecuador's air force troops block the runway at the airport Mariscal Sucre in Quito, Ecuador Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP

Members of the Ecuadorean presidential guard clash with police officers and military Photograph: Jose Jacome/EPA

Correa leaves the Regimiento Quito barracks in a cloud of teargas Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images

Supporters of Correa demonstrate in Quito Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images

Rafael Correa is helped to don a gas mask after striking national police released teargas to keep him inside their main headquarters to negotiate a solution to protests over changes in benefits Photograph: Guillermo Granja/REUTERS

Police and military burn tyres during a protest Photograph: Jose Jacome/EPA

Wearing a gas mask, Rafael Correa is helped as he runs away from teargas Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP

With a gas mask on his head Rafael Correa gestures as he runs away from teargas Photograph: Patricio Realpe/AP

Members of Ecuadorean police and army protest in Loja, Ecuador Photograph: Robert Puglia/EPA

Ecuadorean president's supporters demonstrate in Quito Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images

People wait at the Mariscal Sucre airport in Quito, after it was taken over by the air force troops Photograph: Pablo Cozzaglio/AFP/Getty Images

Police block a march of the Ecuadorean president's supporters in Quito Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images

Police officers disperse the Ecuadorean president's supporters in Quito Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images

Rafael Correa is taken away from the Regimiento Quito barracks after being overcome by teargas thrown by the police seizing the unit barracks Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images

Protesting police gather at the hospital where Correa was taken to be treated after teargas was thrown by the police seizing the Regimiento Quito barracks Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images

Ecuadoren riot police arrest a presidential bodyguard in front of the police hospital in Quito Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images

Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández, speaks during an emergency meeting of South American leaders in Buenos Aires, Argentina Photograph: Eduardo Di Baia/AP

Supporters of Correa gather outside the National Police hospital in Quito Photograph: John Silva/AFP/Getty Images

A vehicle belonging to the security detail of Correa burns after being set on fire by rioting police outside a hospital, where Correa was holed up, in Quito Photograph: Reuters

Correa, sitting in a wheelchair and wearing a gas mask, is rescued from a hospital where he was holed up by protesting police in Quito Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP

Members of an elite police special operations unit rescue Correa from the National Police hospital in Quito Photograph: John Silva/AFP/Getty Images

An injured police officer, front, lies in the emergency room at the police hospital as the body of another officer lies covered with an Ecuadorean flag in Quito Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP

Correa speaks from the balcony of the Carondolet Palace as hundreds of supporters gathered to greet him Photograph: Guillermo Granja/Reuters

Correa at a news conference inside the Carondolet Palace after his rescue Photograph: Guillermo Granja/Reuters