Authorities Ecuador They found “dismembered bodies” after a fight registered on Monday in one of the country’s prisons, the scene of clashes between prisoners is associated with drug trafficking, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Tuesday. Patrick Carillo.
“Forensic anthropologists and forensic experts are leaving to dissect dismembered bodies. The (identification) process will take several days,” the official tweeted after the massacre at Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas prison (80km west of Quito).
He added that “technical visual inspection teams lifted 45 human bodies in the CPL (Detention Center) Santo Domingothere would have been 12 corpses, not 13 (original estimate, sic).”
Ecuadorian authorities said on Monday that 13 prisoners, most of whom were Venezuelan citizens, have died in this clash between rival gang prisoners.
Ecuador registered a new prison massacre on Monday following a clash between prisoners that authorities described as “barbaric” that left more than a dozen prisoners dead. | Font: AFP | Photographer: Juan Carlos Perez
Ecuador: relatives of the victims speak
Some journalists and the media reported that Monday’s riot resulted in decapitated bodies and dismembered limbs being dumped in the courtyards of Bellavista prison. Santo Domingoas happened in six other massacres that have taken place in various locations since 2021 Ecuadorian prisons and it left almost 400 dead.
The minister called Monday’s massacre “barbarous” in the same prison where 44 prisoners died in a riot in May.
Relatives of the victims gathered outside the police station on Tuesday Legal Medicine in Santo Domingo before identifying the victims.
“They’re going to give me my nephew in pieces,” he told AFP between sobs. Marisol Arroyo.
“He called us and said that he had been shot and wounded,” said the wife of one of the prisoners, who did not want to give her name. “They are killing me, nanny, they are killing me,” the prisoner told his sister in the same phone conversation.
Javierwho was released from prison on Tuesday, said he heard “clean gunfire” during the fight.
Gangs linked to international drug cartels wage war for power inside and outside prisons Ecuador.
The country’s 65 prisons, which hold about 30,000 people, are now nearly 9% overcrowded, up from 30% two years ago.
(According to AFP)
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