Unreported World: El Salvador: The Child Assassins

Series 2, episode 0

Reporter Ramita Navai and director Alex Nott travel to El Salvador, which is in the grip of the worst gang violence in a decade. They reveal the shocking fact that many of the gangs' hitmen are children who kill and die with appalling frequency but accept it as part of normal life. Navai also exposes another disturbing trend: the torture and murder of young teenage girls: victims of a gang culture that regards them as sexual objects