At least eleven people were injured last Tuesday after the explosion of three grenades in the dining room of the Penitenciaría del Litoral, located in Guayaquil, and considered the most violent prison in Ecuador. teleSUR
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00:00And the Littoral Penitentiary, the largest and most populated prison in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, is experiencing new riots.
00:07The events take place one day after the bombings of three cattle ranches in which 11 people were injured and several were arrested.
00:16According to the local media, the number of victims is one dead and seven wounded,
00:21but the National Integral Service for People Deprived of Liberty has not yet presented an official report.
00:28Moreover, this Wednesday afternoon, police and military contingents, ambulances and forensic vehicles were seen entering the prison.
00:41The Littoral Penitentiary is the largest in the Guayaquil prison complex, with five facilities and around 12,000 inmates.
00:49This space has been the scene of the worst massacres among inmates recorded in the wave of criminal violence in which Ecuador has found itself since the end of 2020.
00:59For more than 500 prisoners have been killed between 2021 and 2023, most of them in a series of massacres involving rival criminal gangs.
01:09The last of these episodes took place on November 12, resulting in 17 dead and 15 wounded.
01:15Another similar massacre left 31 dead in three days in 2023 in the same person.