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Ecuadorean police reported on Sunday that officers found 10 dead bodies at a property in Guabo, a community in El Oro province in the Andean country's south. Violence has exploded throughout ...
On 29 March, eleven people were abducted in Manabí Province. Five of them were later found killed execution-style while the remaining six, including five children, were released. Two suspects were released the next day. Police said the victims may have been tourists caught up in a drug dispute. [59]
Early reports confirmed that at least 50 inmates were killed following the violence. 800 police officers were required to quell the violence. Some photographs and videos were spread on social media which showed the inmates decapitated and dismembered in pools of blood. [5] On February 24, the death toll of the inmates increased to 79. [6]
6 March: Seven people were killed and three injured after an attack by hit men in the Las Malvinas sector of southern Guayaquil. [53] 11 March: During a police operation in Quevedo, four members Los Choneros were arrested, including one of its leaders. [54] 24 March: A massacre occurred at the Eclipse nightclub in Esmeraldas. The incident left ...
Gunmen attacked a group of people in Ecuador ’s coastal city of Guayaquil killing nine and injuring 10 others, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of violent incidents in the South ...
STORY: The attacks overnight and early on Tuesday morning, which included nine explosions, were an open declaration of war by gangs, Lasso said in a video address. Seven prison officers were also ...
The autopsy report gave his cause of death as cranial trauma, hemorrhaging and cerebral laceration; he also suffered a cranial fracture. [26] Villavicencio was the first Ecuadorian presidential candidate to be killed while campaigning since Abdón Calderón Muñoz in 1978. [27]
Local police said the attackers rode up in a taxi and two motorcycles. They opened fire at the bar in the town of Chanduy, 185 miles (300 kilometers) southwest of Quito. Some of the victims were ...