a prisoner join to another intern During riots in a prison in Ecuador this Mondayafter departed Attacked with an explosive launched from a droneAs reported in a statement by prison officials.
The incidents took place in Sucumbíos prison, a state in northern Ecuador bordering Colombia, the National Comprehensive Service for Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), the government agency responsible for controlling the country’s prisons, reported. . Even if the explosive material does not harm the victim or the prison infrastructure, the incident led to a pile-up of prisoners in which one prisoner killed another with a knife.
In other periods of the prison crisis, which has been going on for about three years in Ecuador, it was seen that unmanned aerial vehicles containing explosives were used to attack the interiors of prisons.
There are in Ecuadorian prisons dead More than 450 prisoners have been killed since 2020Many of these occurred in a series of massacres between rival criminal gangs who challenged internal control of prison centers as well as the areas in which they operated.
In recent months the Police and Armed Forces have carried out a series of searches in Ecuador’s main prisons; In some of them, large caches of weapons were found in the hands of prisoners, including rifles, grenade launchers, hand grenades. and bulletproof vests, as well as machetes and numerous edged weapons.