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GUAYAQUIL: Six people were killed and six wounded Monday in an apparent gang shootout in Guayaquil, a port city in the grips of a wave of violence perpetrated by drug traffickers, police said. Police Colonel Marcelo Castillo told AFP…

An armed attack has killed 10 people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil, the public prosecutor's office of Ecuador and police reported on Sunday (Apr 30). Three people were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, police said on Sunday.…

GUAYAQUIL: At least 10 people were killed overnight when heavily armed assailants opened fire outside a shop in Guayaquil, Ecuador's main port city and economic hub that is under a state of emergency due to rising drug violence, police said…

A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least 14 people, trapping others under rubble, and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines.The U.S. Geological…

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QUITO: Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso said on Sunday he will send an additional 1,100 police officers to coastal Guayaquil and increase military presence there amid a spate of violent deaths the government says are connected to…

Prison inmates from rival gangs in Ecuador fought each other with guns, explosives and blades in a bloodbath that left at least 68 dead in the same prison where a riot in September claimed 119 lives, officials said Saturday.Authorities said…

Ecuadorian Olympic sprinter Alex Quinonez was shot dead in the port city of Guayaquil, authorities announced, sparking a nationwide state of emergency beginning Monday in a bid to track down his killers. Quinonez, 32, and another person…

An entire country is in mourning after an Olympic hero was gunned down in a tragic moment captured by security cameras.Ecuador’s 200m world championships bronze medallist Alex Quinonez was shot dead in the port city of Guayaquil,…

Issued on: 29/09/2021 - 03:52 At least 24 prisoners were killed in a battle between inmates equipped with firearms and grenades at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, officials said…