An armed attack in Ecuador left five dead and eight wounded

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Three men opened fire inside a house in Guayaquil, one of the cities hardest hit by crime and drug trafficking. The bodies of a man and a woman were found outside the house where, according to local media, a party was being held. In Ecuador, the murder rate has nearly doubled from year to year, from 14 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021 to 25 in 2022. In prisons, since February 2021, more than 420 inmates have been reported dead amid violent clashes between rival gangs.

At least five people were killed and eight others wounded Sunday when three men opened fire inside a home in Guayaquil, one of the cities hardest hit by crime and drug trafficking in Ecuador, police said.
 
"So far we have five people dead and eight people injured, who are in different health centers in the city," police Colonel Fabary Montalvo told reporters.
 
One of the deceased, Montalvo said, is a police officer who was shot several times in the head. The bodies of a man and a woman were found outside the house where, according to local media, a party was being held.
 
The colonel said that, according to witnesses, three men on a motorcycle arrived at the Isla Trinitaria sector, in the south of Guayaquil, got out of the vehicle and entered the home, where "they made several detonations with firearms."
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