2024-04-09 21:53:38
Five people were murdered on the Puerto López-Santa Elena road. The Public Force reinforced its presence in this canton of Manabí.
The town of Puerto López, in Manabí, is devastated after the massacre of five tourists from a group made up of 11 people this Friday, March 29, 2024. Behind this event would be a narco-criminal organization, according to the Police.
The crime occurred on the first day of the Easter holiday in Ecuador, which will end on Sunday the 31st. Furthermore, in the midst of the state of exception that was decreed three months ago by the Government to confront crime.
“To achieve the interventions, at this moment, Puerto López is under siege, it is intervened,” said the Police commander in zone 4, Richard Vaca, this afternoon, indicating that they are on the trail of the culprits of this massacre.
“Two combat teams from the Armed Forces have also just arrived at this moment and we are going to carry out an intervention equal to those we have been carrying out for three months in order to find the whereabouts of these antisocials,” he told reporters.
According to police information, this is known about the crime: The group of tourists, which included six adults and five minors, from Pedro Carbo (Guayas) had arrived in Puerto López on the afternoon of Thursday, March 28. (Manabi).
Between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. they stayed in one of the hotels in this tourist area.
A few minutes after staying, approximately 20 subjects broke into the premises, tied them up and took them away.
At 6:00 this Friday, the Police received an alert and activated the protocols to search for those responsible.
The five minors survived, as did an adult who gave the alert.
Specialized Police units moved to the site to collect footprints and evidence of what happened.
At the crime scene, 23 ballistic evidence of all calibers were found, including one that is related to other crimes that occurred in San Vicente and other areas of Manabí in recent days.
The Police presume that behind this violent event there would be a narco-criminal gang that swarms in Santa Elena and the south of Manabí.
The police chief added that the victims do not have a criminal record, in principle, and that “it is presumed that it would be an alleged confusion between criminal organizations.”
The police chief added that the victims do not have a criminal record, in principle, and that ““It is presumed that it would be an alleged confusion between criminal organizations.”
“The perpetrators would have apparently confused these subjects (tourists) as their adversaries in the matter of the micro-trafficking dispute in the sector,” he noted.
Finally, the officer mentioned that, so far this year, Manabí has recorded 166 violent deaths, «“Almost all of them are victims related to activities that have to do with micro and drug trafficking, territorial disputes between organizations, they are carried out between the same members due to leadership disputes,” he added.
By: PRIMICIAS