10 dead, at least 2 heads, in the riot of Ecuador, a few days after the deadly prison was broken

Police in the country that was shocked by violence on Thursday said that the clashes between the competing drug gangs claimed at least 10 life in the second dead riot in Ecuador prison in days.

The bloody fighting erupted in prison in the turbulent coastal city of Asmarallas, near the Colombian border, where the police said they had found 10 dead prisoners in two masses of cells – more than 500 inverted prisoners in the country since 2021.

Joint photos on social media showed and verified by Ace France-Presse dead men on the ground with blood-stained trunks, at least two of them beheaded.

Family members gathered anxiety outside the prison because of the news of their loved ones.

on monday, 13 prisoners and guardians A killing was reported in the southwest of Ecuador, whose crowded and violent prisons have become operating centers of organized crime groups. The officials said that the dead prisoners belong to his opponent, Los Shuniros and Los Le Popos, one of the largest drug trafficking groups in Ecuador. Earlier this month, We are appointed Both gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.

It is located between the best cocaine sources in the world – Colombia and Peru – the 17 million country has seen violence in recent years as competitive gangs with relations with Mexican and Colombian Cartitals competing for control.

More than 70 % of all cocaine produced in the world now pass through Ecuador ports, according to government data.

Since February 2021, gang wars have played largely in the country’s prisons, as the prisoners often killed in a horrific way – their bodies have been divided and burned.

Prison parties, live broadcasts

Ecuador prisons It is among the most dangerous in the world. Prisons were under military control since January 2024, when President Daniel Nuboa announced The case of “internal armed conflict” After a brutal wave of gang violence.

Prison officials were also targeted. Last September, the director of the largest prison in Ecuador, Maria Daniela IkazaHe was killed in an armed attack while driving. Her death came a few days after the killing of the head of a different prison, Alex Guevara, in a car attack.

The largest massacre in Ecuador occurred in prison in 2021, when more than 100 prisoners were killed in the city of Guaayakle in the southwest.

On more than one occasion, the prisoners on social media have spread their violent campaigns, while showing charred and charred bodies of their enemies.

Last year, the gang members obtained dozens of prison guards as hostages after Gils went into Narko Jose Adolvo Massias, also known as “Fito”, while the allies on the external bombs detonated them and held a TV presentation at Gunpoint Live on Air.

Veto, the head of the Los Shuniros gang, was It was restored in June This year, more than a year after his escape.

He was serving a 34 -year prison sentence since 2011 for being involved in organized crime, drug trafficking and murder, but he continued to withdraw the criminal world chains from behind bars.

Videos from Fito, which holds wild parties before escaping from prison, and some with fireworks, showing the chaos of these facilities.

In July Fito delivery To the United States, where he is He admitted that he is not guilty to FeesIncluding the distribution of international cocaine and the smuggling of firearms.