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GUAYAQUIL (Reuters) – Six people were killed and six wounded on Monday in what appeared to be a shootout between a gang in GuayaquilPolice said it was a port city in the grip of a wave of violence perpetrated by drug traffickers.
Police colonel Marcelo Castillo Tell Agence France-Presse GuayaquilThe second mass shooting in June appeared to be a settling of scores between rival gangs. All six injured are in stable condition.
Two weeks ago, a policeman and four people were killed and eight injured when three men opened fire in a house in Guayaquil, in the southwest of the South American country.
These types of attacks are becoming more frequent in Ecuador, and especially in Guayaquil, where rival gangs fight for markets, street drug routes and prisons, leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.
Castillo said the attackers arrived in a black car in a densely populated neighborhood in the early hours of Monday, “four or five got out of it” and opened fire even with several people in the street.
“It’s just revenge for past acts of violence,” the policeman said. They kill each other mercilessly.
More than 420 prisoners have died in fierce fighting between rival criminal groups in Ecuadorian prisons since February 2021, and some have been beheaded.
Guayaquil, in southern Ecuador Pacific coastis the country’s largest city, largest port and economic center, but in recent years, it has become the increasingly bloody center of the turf war.
The city’s coastal location makes it a strategic staging post for drug shipments to the United States and Europe.
Ecuador, located between Colombia and Peru, is the world’s largest cocaine producer. The country also, conveniently for the cartels, uses the US dollar as its currency.
Police colonel Marcelo Castillo Tell Agence France-Presse GuayaquilThe second mass shooting in June appeared to be a settling of scores between rival gangs. All six injured are in stable condition.
Two weeks ago, a policeman and four people were killed and eight injured when three men opened fire in a house in Guayaquil, in the southwest of the South American country.
These types of attacks are becoming more frequent in Ecuador, and especially in Guayaquil, where rival gangs fight for markets, street drug routes and prisons, leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.
Castillo said the attackers arrived in a black car in a densely populated neighborhood in the early hours of Monday, “four or five got out of it” and opened fire even with several people in the street.
“It’s just revenge for past acts of violence,” the policeman said. They kill each other mercilessly.
More than 420 prisoners have died in fierce fighting between rival criminal groups in Ecuadorian prisons since February 2021, and some have been beheaded.
Guayaquil, in southern Ecuador Pacific coastis the country’s largest city, largest port and economic center, but in recent years, it has become the increasingly bloody center of the turf war.
The city’s coastal location makes it a strategic staging post for drug shipments to the United States and Europe.
Ecuador, located between Colombia and Peru, is the world’s largest cocaine producer. The country also, conveniently for the cartels, uses the US dollar as its currency.
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