At least 68 prisoners have been killed after riots broke out in a prison in Ecuador on Saturday.
Saturday’s 8-hour battle inside Litoral Prison between rival gangs is the latest cycle of violence to hit one of Ecuador’s prisons.
In September, 119 people died in one of Ecuador’s worst prison massacres ever.
Prisoners “tried to dynamite a wall to get to Pavilion 2 to carry out a massacre. They also burned mattresses to try to drown (their competitors) in smoke, “said Governor Pablo Arosemena of Guayas Province, where Guayaquil is located.
“We are fighting drug trafficking,” Arosemena said. “It is very difficult.”
According to reports, prisoners were armed with rifles and explosives.
Some unconfirmed reports claim that prisoners also had machetes and chainsaws and at least 5 people were beheaded.
AP reported:
A long-running shootout between rival gangs inside Ecuador’s largest prison early Saturday left at least 68 prisoners dead in the latest violence to hit the Litoral Penitentiary, which recently experienced the country’s worst prison massacre.
The fighting lasted for almost eight hours in the lock in the coastal city of Guayaquil and authorities attributed the fighting to prison gangs linked to international drug cartels. Videos circulating on social media show bodies, some burned, lying on the ground inside the jail.
VIDEO:
JUST IN 🚨 Dozens killed in prison riots in Ecuador pic.twitter.com/vqlcGeKG1p
– Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) 13 November 2021
Unconfirmed video of corpses lying on the ground in prison on Saturday spread on social media:
#BREAK
Death toll rises to 68 inches #Ecuador jail riot: officialsNew fighting in Guayaquil prison in Ecuador kills 68#AFP #BreakingNews #PrisonDelLitoral #Guayaquil pic.twitter.com/t75FbvWgwr
Via @follow– ALPHA PRO (@DTMsport) 13 November 2021
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