Ecuadorian authorities reported 2 people were killed and 2 injured in the attack on the prison director. Number of women from Esmeraldas in northern Ecuador.
Reporting the victims’ balance, the country’s National Comprehensive Care Service for Adults and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) denied the attack, stating: deaths two relatives of the prison warden.
Also, according to the statement posted on the SNAI Twitter profile, the injured are an officer and a member of the prison security force. The body affirmed that “acts of violence will not interrupt the work undertaken by the Government” in terms of “management, control and security of prisons on a national scale”.
Fausto Salinas, the commander of the Ecuadorian National Police, announced that he has mobilized special units to “find those responsible for this criminal act”.