While the war against drug trafficking advances with soldiers deployed in the streets of Ecuador, Police arrested 68 people, alleged members of a criminal groupafter they tried to take control of a town in Guayas.
As reported by the police on X (formerly Twitter), “They neutralized suspected terroristswho were trying to take over the facilities of a health home in Yaguachi, Guayas.”
“Security block carrying out internal operations. Forty members of terrorist organizations tried to take over the Hospital facilities (from the city of) Yaguachi, the rapid military and police action allowed the arrest of the terrorists,” reported the Armed Forces of Ecuador.
Later, the number of those arrested in the hospital in the town located northeast of Guayaquil rose to 68as reported by police personnel, according to the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.
Attempt to take over a hospital in Ecuador: 68 arrested
It all started this morning, when there was an event violent against a person who would belong to a criminal gangwho was then taken to the Yaguachi public medical center.
After that episode there was a attempted takeover of the public hospital by a group of men, who would be known to the affected person and who They sought to protect the victimwho ended up passing away.
“We were waiting for special units come to carry out the intervention (from the hospital)“said the head of zone 5 of the Police, Julio Camacho, quoted by the Ecuadorian press.
The police indicated that during the operation they seized firearms and drugs. A clandestine rehabilitation center was also raided “where” the alleged members of the gang were hiding, the entity said.
“Inside this supposed rehabilitation center, It has been the command center of all these people“said Camacho, who reported that “a brothel” also operated in those facilities.
Violence continues in Ecuador: the Government fights drug trafficking
The taking by harmed shadows of the TC channel in full broadcast on January 9 marked a turning point in Ecuador in its fight against drug trafficking and led the president Noboa to declare a “internal armed conflict” and order a relentless fight against drug gangs, which he described as “terrorists.”
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