14 Killed, including a guard, in clashes in prison in Ecuador, while some prisoners escape

Police said that prisoners in Ecuador fought each other with guns and explosives in riots that left 13 prisoners and a dead guard.

The chaos was the latest in a series of blood bags that attract prisons that suffer from crowded gangs in a country that is once in a zero land of drug trafficking in violent Latin America.

A convincing police officer who was identified as the commander of Colonel William Kali told the Ecavisa channel, an unknown number of prisoners who fled in the clash between the competing gangs, during which 14 others were injured.

Thirteen prisoners were restored.

Kali said that the shooting broke out in the early morning hours, alerting prison guards and police who rushed to this part of the prison in Matshala, in southwest Ecuador near the Peruvian border.

The officer said that one of the guards was killed when he entered, and others took hostage.

Kali said that the confrontation lasted for about 40 minutes, as the prisoners threw “weapons that fired weapons, bombs, and grenades.”

The dead prisoners belong to the Los Shuniros and Los Los Los gangs, one of the largest drug trafficking groups in Ecuador. Earlier this month, We are appointed Both gangs as foreign terrorist organizations are in the last step of the Trump administration against Cartlatat.

Police said that the violence was the result of “fighting between gangs” in a facility that doubled the number of prisoners designed for them.

“Control has already been restored,” Cali said.

The fate of the hostages or the number of guests who were fleeing.

Ecuador prisons It is among the most dangerous world, and many drug gangs have been seized. Prisons were under military control since January 2024, when President Daniel Nuboa announced The case of “internal armed conflict” After a brutal wave of violence, it ignited from Jilibic the head of the crime.

In September 2024, director of the largest prison in Ecuador, Maria Daniela IkazaHe was killed in an armed attack while driving. Ikeza’s death came a few days after the prison chief was killed in the Amazon province of Sukoleson, Alex Guevara, in a car attack.

Ecuador recorded more than 4,600 murders in the first half of the year, an increase of 47 % over the same period in 2024, data from the Ecuadorian Observatory for Organized Crime.

Gang violence continues unabated after restoring in June from the country’s largest drug master, Adolvo MakasThe pseudonym is Veto, after he escaped from the Al -Aqsa Security Prison in 2024.

In July Massias delivery To the United States, it is He admitted that he is not guilty. A The indictment of seven workers Macías, who leads Los Choniros, accused multiple charges, including international cocaine distribution and firearm smuggling from the United States