Ecuador’s prison riot kills at least 17 people Prison news

This is the second deadly prison riot in Ecuador this week.

At least 17 people were killed in riots in prison in Ecuador, the second deadly prison quarrel to hit the country this week.

The fighting erupted on Thursday in the coastal city of Asmarala near the Colombian border. According to what was reported, the police found dead prisoners inside the cell eyebrows, and the photos share social media and verify by the News Agency to Agence France Presse. At least two of them were beheaded.

Earlier this week, Riot Because of the gangs in the southern Ecuador, 14 people were killed and 14 were wounded, according to a local police chief.

Police chief William Kali told the Akwavisa television network that the prisoners in the town of Matthela, south of Gawayakale, faced the authorities on Monday, killing a guard and kidnapping officers.

Ecuador has a history of deadly prison violence.

More than 100 prisoners They were killed in Guaayakle in 2021 in Riot works between competing gangs Inside the prison – the largest prison massacre in Ecuador – and more than 50 wounded.

Gang wars have played largely in the country’s prisons, where about 500 prisoners have been killed since February 2021, often in a horrific way with their severed bodies and burning them.

Last year, the gang members got dozens of prison guards as hostages after the loss of Jailbreak of Narcootics Jose Adolfo Macias, also known as FITO, while allies on external explosive bombs held a TV presentation at Gunpoint Live on Air.

President Daniel Nuboa announced a “state of internal armed conflict” and ordered the army to control prisons. Last month, eight prisons, including Matchala prison, were returned to police control.

Among the two largest cocaine exporters in the world – Colombia and Peru – Ecuador have seen violence in recent years as competitive gangs with relationships with Mexican and Colombian carts competing for control.

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