• America Ecuador militarizes the Guayaquil prison after the massacre of prisoners

A total of 68 inmates died and another 12 were injured in a new massacre registered in the penitentiary of the city of Guayaquil, located in southwestern Ecuador, reported this Saturday the governor of Guayas,

Pablo Arosemena

.

"At this moment, the information we have is 68 people deprived of liberty (PPL) who have died and more than a dozen are injured, receiving medical support," he explained at a press conference.

He assured that last night he traveled with other officials to the penitentiary and they found

"very intense bullets crossing, and very close to the entrance door to the penitentiary

, detonations, a savage situation."

"The police used tear gas to calm the situation, while the inmates who tried to enter pavilion 2 fired and tried to make a hole in the wall, and also

burned mattresses generating toxic smoke seeking to intoxicate."

According to Arosemena, the entrance of the National Police in the early morning "made it possible to save lives and not be an even more regrettable circumstance."

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The general commander of the Police,

Tannya Varela

, stressed that the events are due to

a dispute over the territories of criminal gangs

inside the prison, where some pavilions are without their leaders "because in a way that surprises all citizens they have been released after serving 60% of the sentence. "

That power vacuum generated yesterday's dispute "in a more violent way than normal," he

said. According to Varela, the use of drones made it possible to detect that there were prisoners from about three pavilions "roaming freely throughout the prison armed and with explosives." The Police carried out a sweep throughout the penitentiary center so that the inmates return to their pavilions and protected number 2.

"This that has happened, possibly could generate other actions, taking into consideration" that there is an absence of leaders, "he warned before detailing that ten inmates died in pavilion 2 and the rest in" an area called transitory. "" I understand "he said," that pavilion 3 is the one that attacked 2 and pavilions 7, 8 and 9 were the ones that entered this transitory area where we have the highest number of deaths. "

In the penitentiary

where this same year another massacre took place that killed 118 inmates

, there are 8,000 prisoners distributed in twelve wards of between 700 and 800 people each.

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