The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, declared a state of emergency of the entire prison system after the massacre, with more than 100 deaths, recorded on Tuesday in the prison of the city of Guayaquil (southwest) due to a clash between gangs criminals.
Lasso reported that 116 inmates died and 80 injured after Tuesday’s clash in Guayaquil’s No. 1 Prison, also known as Litoral Penitentiary. The president, in a press conference, defined the outcome of the violent brawl in the prison as “deplorable” and “sad”, and remarked that so far “116 dead and about 80 injured have been reported; they are all persons deprived of their liberty, not they are civilian personnel “or prison guides.
“It is regrettable that prisons are turning into a territory of power disputes between criminal gangs”, Lasso stressed and said that one of the first actions to address this phenomenon was to declare a “state of emergency” in all. the country throughout the country’s prison system.
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