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Four of Ecuador’s jails saw unprecedented and bloody violence this week, in confrontations that were described by the South American country’s government as “concerted action by criminal organisations”. Now the death toll from the violence has reached 79, including 18 prisoners who were found dismembered at one jail. Police are now preparing to re-enter one jail and use necessary rational force as another mutiny has been reported.
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QUITO, Feb 24 At least 75 inmates died yesterday and several were injured in riots blamed on gang rivalry at three jails in Ecuador’s overcrowded prison system, authorities said. As security forces battled to regain control, distraught family members waited desperately for news outside the.
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Sixty-seven people were killed in three prison mutinies carried out by criminal organizations in Ecuador, the head of the National Service of Attention to People Deprived of Liberty (SNAI) said on Tuesday.
SNAI director Edmundo Moncayo said that some members of staff were injured in the disorders but none were among the dead in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
Earlier in the day President Lenin Moreno said that “criminal organizations” were carrying out violent acts at a number of detention centres at the same time.