Armed who wore military uniforms, possibly disguised, opened fire on a group of people watching cockroachkilling at least 12 of them in a rural area of EquatorialThe police announced Friday.

The massacre was committed around midnight in the area of ​​the Provinces of Manavi and Santo Domingo and Los Tsatsilas (northwest), said Rivera Rivera, a police officer.

He added that there are many more injuries, without any more specific.

The Manavi is one of the eight provinces of Ecuador who have been in an emergency at the order of the government to tackle the violence of drug trafficking gangs.

Visual material recorded a closed surveillance circuit camera and circulated on social networking sites depicts a group of at least five armed people entering the area and start throwing with automatic rifles against attendees.

The perpetrators wore a military surrounding, a tactic that is common in cases of clearing accounts between opposing gangs.

From the beginning of the year, an average murder has been committed at the time of the Ecuador, a country where the cocaine is passed on to its neighbors, Colombia and Peru – the two countries that are at the top of the world rankings in terms of the production of the US and the US.

Daniel Noboa, who waged a “war” against some twenty gangs that are being fired at the country, was declared a winner of Sunday’s presidential election with 11 points difference from his opponent, a candidate for the left.

He has called on the US to support the fight against drug traffickers and wants to reopen US military bases in the country and to be able to intervene US special forces.

In addition, the Ecuadorian president announced the conclusion of a “strategic alliance” with a private security company led by Eric Prince, the founder of the infamous Blackwater.