Seventeen People died in Riots at a Prison in Ecuador on Wednesday. Accordance to local media, inmates from rival drug gangs fought each other. Three days ago, riots in Another Prison also had a deadly outcome.
Local Media Speak of A “Massacre” in the Prison in Esmeraldas, near the border with Colombia. The Riots May Have Cost More Lives, Writes Primicias .
Accordance to a police report, Fighting Broke out after an argument between three criminal gangs. The Organized Crime Group Los Tiguerones is Said to Have Ordered Detained Members To Kill Members of Gangs Los Lobos and Los Choneros.
As a distraction, a prisoner falsely raised the alarm, which other detainese used to steal a guard’s keys. Accordance to the ecuadorian news site, members of los tiguerones opened their cells and attacked their fellow prisoners.
On Monday, Fourteen People died in a prison in the Port City of Machala after Violence between rival gangs. Accordance to Police, Prisoners Shot with Guns and Threw “Bombs and Grenades”.
The Group Los Lobos Has Been Designated by the Police as Responsible for Those Riots. The Gang Has Been designated as a Terrorist Organization by the US.
Bloody Riots Regularly Break Out in Prisons in Ecuador. Local Media Call Prisons “Centers or Drug Trafficking”. Since 2021, at Least Five hundred people are said to have in Violence in Detention Centers.