More than a hundred people died in the riot in the same prison until September.
In Ecuador 58 people have died in a prison riot in Guayaquil, police say. In addition, 12 prisoners have been injured in the riots, according to police.
More than a hundred people died in the riot in the same prison last September. The prison is designed for more than 5,000 prisoners, but thousands more prisoners have been crowded there.
Fighting between the prisoners in prison began on Friday. According to the governor of the province of Guayas, police intervention succeeded in saving lives.
More than 300 prisoners have already died in Ecuador’s prison riots this year. In the country’s prisons, thousands of inmates are linked to drug gangs, whose clashes often escalate into prison riots.
Two weeks after the bloody riot in September, the president of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso declared a 60-day state of emergency to quell the unrest over drug crime. He also appointed a new defense minister to deal with the prison crisis.
Incidentally, violence has increased in Ecuador this year as the country’s economic situation tightens.
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