2024-08-13 23:03:55
Least five people die and three others were injured after a clash between gangs of criminals Military in the mining area of Camilo Ponce Enríquez, in the province of Azuay, as reported this Tuesday by the Ecuadorian police.
The law enforcement department, in a message on social networks, stated that it conducted investigations to explain the reasons for this incident and find those responsible for the murder. “This morning we reported an attack between members of organized armed groups that caused the death of 5 people and injured 3 people, in a mine in the Canton (district) Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Azuay,” the law enforcement agency say in your network account.
This area is located in a mountain area and tropical rainforest in the foothills of the Andean mountain range in the south of the country extending to the coastal area.
The police also said that in coordination with the so-called ‘Search Block’, a group created by the Government and of the police and the military to fight crime, they will carry out “investigations to explain the reasons and bring those responsible for this fact. .”
The rise of organized crime in Ecuador making this South American country the most violent in the region in 2023when it reached a rate of 47.2 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the authorities who attributed this great violence to organized crime groups mainly to drug trafficking, but also to illegal mining.
Faced with the intense insecurity crisis that occurred earlier this year, the Ecuadorian President, Daniel Noboa, placed the fight against organized crime in the category of “internal war”, thus classifying these groups as “terrorists” and “of not a state of militant actors.” Even at the beginning of 2024, he ordered a state of isolation with which he militarized the prisons, also considering the focus of military violence in the country.
According to the Government, These measures have allowed the rate of violent death to decrease by 17% until 2024in comparison with the previous year, although the cases of serious crime continue to be corrected, and other types of crime such as kidnapping and extortion have not ended.
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