Fresh gang clashes in massive prison complex in Ecuador's biggest city, Guayaquil, leave at least 12 inmates dead, officials say
At least 12 inmates have been killed in fresh clashes that broke out in a prison in the Ecuadoran port of Guayaquil, the prosecutor's office said, the latest deadly violence to rock the city's penitentiaries.
Ecuadoran prisons are the scene of recurrent massacres between prisoners, against a backdrop of rivalry between criminal groups fighting for control of lucrative drug trafficking. The country's main port on the Pacific coast, Guayaquil has in recent years become the epicentre of drug trafficking in Ecuador, located between Colombia and Peru — the world's main cocaine producers.Since February 2021, eight massacres have been recorded in these prisons, with more than 400 prisoners killed, most of them dismembered and burned.
Overnight Friday to Saturday, the police and the army regained control of the prison, which houses around 6,800 inmates and is part of a large prison complex.
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