2023-07-11 00:20:01
The killings occurred in two poor neighborhoods of Guayaquil, where at least three other street killings have been reported since April.
At least ten dead and ten wounded They left two armed attacks registered on Sunday in Guayaquil, one of the most violent cities in Ecuador due to drug trafficking, the Prosecutor’s Office reported on Monday.
The murders occurred in two poor neighborhoods of Guayaquil (southwest), where since April at least three other massacres have been reported in the streets.
The first violent event “left 4 dead and 10 injured, including 3 minors, in a shootout” in Siete Lagos, in the south of Guayaquil, the Prosecutor’s Office said.
Children of 14, 13 and 2 years They were taken to city hospitals for care.
Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil, tops the list of Ecuador’s most violent provinces, with 1,531 murders between January and June. AFP photo
On the streets
The shots started around 9:45 p.m. local time while a group of people drank liquor on the streetsaid Lieutenant Colonel Ramiro Arequipa, police chief of the southern district of Guayaquil.
Was “multiple shots fired with firearms of different calibers”Arequipa added in a video broadcast on Twitter by the Police.
The police chief commented that before the attack the uniformed officers had tried to dissuade people from entering their homes, but “ignoring the request” they returned to the street where they were under fire.
“This circumstance is taken advantage of by individuals that cause an attack”Arequipa detailed.
The second murder occurred in the north of the city, in the impoverished neighborhood of La Florida, “leaving 6 deceased as a balance”the Prosecutor’s Office noted.
On April 30, one of the attacks in Guayaquil. AFP photo
The authorities have not offered details about this crime, although local media indicate that it was an armed attack.
Violence
Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil, tops the list of the most violent provinces in Ecuador, with 1,531 murders between January and June.
Ecuador closed 2022 with a rate of 25.75 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, according to Dinased, in charge of investigating violent deaths and disappearances.
The rate until June of this year is 18 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Guayaquil, due to its status as a port, has become a drug distribution point that goes to the United States and Europe. In the city, criminal gangs are fighting over the territory for the distribution of narcotics.
Two separate armed attacks have occurred in this port city of some 2.8 million inhabitants. Two massacres were reported in June, which left a total of 11 dead and 16 injured.
In April another ten people died while watching a soccer match.
Ecuador, located in the middle of Colombia and Peru, the world’s leading cocaine producershas seized 455 tons of drugs during the government of President Guillermo Lasso, in power since May 2021.
That year the annual record for drug seizures was recorded, some 210 tons.
Source: AFP and EFE
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