They are “58 deprived of liberty who lost their lives and twelve who are injured,” said the officer, that figure within a few hours was expanded to 68.
The revolt took place on Friday at the Guayas 1 penitentiary in the port of Guayaquil, where 119 inmates died in September. This time the prisoners tried to invade a pavilion with gunshots and explosives.
The intervention of the Police “allowed to save lives,” he said. Pablo Arosemena, Governor of the Guayas province (whose capital is Guayaquil).
The authorities revealed a high level of violence during the mutiny in that prison, one of the most important in the country, with 8,500 inmates and an overcrowding of 60% according to official figures.
“What was raised yesterday in a more violent way than normal begins at approximately 7:00 p.m. (local, 00:00 GMT on Saturday), when by an alert the National Police generates the protocols to be able to contain the violence inside the penitentiary,” he said. Varela.
Images released by social networks, whose authenticity has not been confirmed by the authorities, reveal bodies that are cremated, as has happened in other riots.
Arosemena referred to “the level of savagery, the level of inhumanity” by prisoners who attacked a pavilion “not only by shooting and detonating.”
Rival gangs linked to drug trafficking wage a bloody dispute in the Guayas 1 prison. On September 28, 119 people died in the same prison, in the largest massacre in Ecuador’s prison history and one of the worst in Latin America.
Since then the violence has not stopped. Following the September incidents, another 15 inmates were killed for a total of 134.
Prison riots throughout Ecuador leave more than 250 dead so far this year. In February, 79 inmates died in simultaneous riots in four prisons.
The September massacre prompted the Ecuadorian government to declare a Exception status for the penitentiary system for 60 days (until the end of November), for which soldiers support the police in maintaining control in the country’s 65 prisons.
Ecuadorian prisons have a capacity for 30,000 people but are occupied by 39,000, with an overcrowding of 30%.
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