The death toll from a real guerrilla war between rival gangs which broke out in a Guayaquil prison, in Ecuador.
Local police officials said it was the worst prison violence in the country's history. At least five inmates were beheaded in clashes that broke out on Tuesday, while others were brutally killed. The police commander Fausto Goodano He said the prisoners also threw grenades.
According to the BBC, it took 400 police officers to regain control of the prison, which houses inmates linked to international drug trafficking gangs.
Local media reported that the riot was ordered by powerful Mexican drug gangs now operating in Ecuador. The director of the Ecuadorian prison service, Bolivar Garzón, told local radio that the situation was “terrible.”
"Yesterday the police took control at 14.00:XNUMX p.m. (local time), but last night there were more shootings, more violence, explosions. Only today in the morning did we take full control, we entered the pavilions where there was conflict and we discovered more bodies," he said.
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