Ecuador is witnessing a wave of violence due to a conflict between gangs involved in drug trafficking.
At least five people were killed and eight others injured Sunday when three men opened fire inside a home in Guayaquil, one of the cities hardest hit by crime and drug trafficking in Ecuador, police said.
According to eyewitnesses, three men on a motorbike arrived at Isla Trinitaria in the south of the city and entered the house where they “fired several shots”.
“So far we have counted five dead and eight wounded,” Colonel Fabari Montalvo told the press, explaining that one of the dead was a policeman who was shot several times in the head.
Ecuador is witnessing a wave of violence due to a conflict between gangs involved in drug trafficking.
In the face of this violence, President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency on March 3 for 60 days in three provinces.
And Guayaquil, which is the commercial center of the country and the center for shipping the bulk of the drugs, is one of the regions with the greatest prevalence of crime.
