After four days of deadly fights, the number of prisoners killed in an Ecuadorian prison riot has increased from 18 to 31, the attorney general’s office announced on Tuesday.
“The number of dead has risen to 31, with 14 wounded, after the clashes registered since Saturday inside the (Guayas 1 prison) in Guayaquil,” the office said on social network Twitter, rebranded as X.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, the death toll from weekend unrest in a prison in the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, has increased from 18 to 31, according to AFP on Wednesday.
Over 5,600 prisoners are housed at Guayas 1, which the government claimed to have restored “total control” over through its communications department, Segcom. According to police, officers recovered nine rifles, a grenade launcher, four handguns, two revolvers, and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
Due to the “explosions and the quantity of weapons and ammunition found inside the prison,” the public prosecutor’s office stated on Tuesday that a murder inquiry into the killings as well as a terrorist investigation had been launched.
