two fishermen Passed and another injured When they were riddled with bullets on the boat this Thursday in Ecuador They were sailing on the high seas after being stopped by another boat with about seven men on board.He fled, according to the National Police. According to a report by Edison Rodríguez, chief of police in the Progreso region, the injured person has been hospitalized and his prognosis is withheld.
The incidents took place at sea at 12:00 local time (17:00 GMT) in front of the port of Posorja in the coastal area of Guayaquil, and so far the cause of the crime has not been reported. The police, in coordination with the prosecutor’s office, started to search and catch the perpetrators of this armed attack.
This incident came just one day after another attack in the Gulf of Guayaquil in which six workers from a shrimp farm were injured when approached by two boats with gunmen. Also on Wednesday, an armed group of about 30 people who entered the fishing port of Esmeraldas on the north coast of Ecuador with their cars and boats, carried out a massacre, shooting at all people indiscriminately. who were at the scene and killed nine people, including one Colombian. Authorities believe this massacre was part of the conflict between rival organized crime gangs fighting for control of the area.
Drug smuggling in the backgroundIt has made Ecuador one of the main South American springboards for cocaine reaching North America and Europe, particularly through ports like Guayaquil.