The bodies of seven men, including two minors, with bullet wounds, were found in Novol, Guayas province, about forty kilometers from Guayaquil. Two of the victims had criminal records.
Seven people were killed in Ecuador during an attack in the region of Guayaquil (southwest), now the epicenter of violence in the country, police said over the weekend.
The bodies of seven men, including two minors, with bullet wounds, were found in Novol, Guayas province, about forty kilometers from Guayaquil, the police said in a press release. Two of the victims had criminal records.
The massacre, motivated by revenge, according to press reports cited by police sources, took place on the night of Friday to Saturday. Law enforcement agencies had to spend hours trying to locate all the victims.
Massacres are increasingly common in Ecuador, where the homicide rate has multiplied from 6 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018 to 43 per 100,000 in 2023.
Sandwiched between Colombia and Peru—the two largest cocaine-producing countries in the world—the country has become a drug-trafficking hub for the US and European markets.
At the end of March, eight people were murdered in Guayaquil, including five tourists, who were kidnapped and executed on a beach, as the attackers thought they were their rivals.
Source :Skai
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