The killings took place in a penitentiary in Guayaquil, the South American country's largest city, the attorney general's office announced earlier on Friday. Ecuador's government swiftly condemned the killings. Outgoing President Guillermo Lasso pledged "neither complicity nor cover-up" in getting to the bottom of the killings, in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The six people killed on Friday in a prison in Ecuador s Guayas province were all accused as suspects in the murder case of anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, the. -October 06, 2023 at 10:38 pm EDT
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