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A group of armed men opened fire in front of a nightclub in a rural commune in the southwest of the country. Furthermore, The attackers killed eight people and fled.
A group of armed men shot people who were in front of a nightclub in Ecuador. Furthermore, (Illustration image)
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Eight people died Sunday after a group of armed men opened fire in front of a nightclub in a rural commune in the southwest of the equator. Furthermore, police announced.
The attackers arrived on the scene aboard two vans. opened fire on a group of people who drank alcohol in the street, in front of the entrance to a nightclub, around 01:15 a.m. (08:15 a.m. Swiss hour) in the canton of Santa Lucía, in the province of Guayas.
The police found “several people injured. seven corpses” arriving at the scene, said police colonel Javier Chango during a press conference.
An eighth person died when she was treated in a local hospital, he added.
Among the deceased victims is a man identified as Jorge Urquizo. brother of the mayor of this municipality of 38,000 inhabitants and owner of the nightclub.
Police have found nearly 80 bales of 9 millimeters and automatic weapons on site. After the attack, the armed men returned to their vehicles and fled by “an unknown road”, added the police colonel.
Fight against gang violence
In this area. the authorities arrested an armed with a revolver who was moving in a van, but they could not determine if this man had participated in the attack.
The police have not yet established the reasons for ecuador: eight dead after shooting this massacre.
The town hall of Santa Lucía broke out in mourning on Sunday. “We unite in sadness. prayer in the face of this violent act which struck our community,” wrote the mayor’s office Ubaldo Urquizo on social networks.
Guayas is one of the four provinces in which President Daniel Noboa recently renewed the state of emergency for two months. in order to combat the violence of criminal gangs.
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