Two people died and nine others were injured in a fire “arcused” in a nightclub in the Amazonian city of El Coca, the National Police reported this Thursday, calling the event a “terrorist attack.”
The fire, which occurred on Wednesday night, was “caused by unidentified persons”, and affected eleven nearby premises, the Police indicated.
A Police source told EFE that they received the alert at 10:15 p.m. local time (3:15 GMT), 45 minutes before the curfew that came into effect last Monday with the declaration of state of emergency was applied. exception.
According to the police, “As a result of this terrorist attack, there are nine people injured and two dead.”
The authorities activated the so-called “silver code” to protect the hospital where the injured were transferred. The police are investigating what happened and have begun the search for those responsible for the terrorist attack.
The fire in the nightclub It occurs at a time when different attacks are being recorded in various parts of the country, which increased after the state of emergency decreed last Monday by the president Daniel Noboa in the midst of riots in six prisons and the escape of inmates, two of them highly dangerous.
The next day the president decreed the existence of an “internal armed conflict” and ordered the Armed Forces to carry out military actions “under international humanitarian law and respecting human rights.”
The Government has identified a total of twenty-two criminal groups “as terrorist organizations and belligerent non-state actors.”
Among them are “Águilas, ÁguilasKiller, Ak47, Caballeros Oscuros, ChoneKiller, Choneros, Covicheros, Cuartel de las Feas, Cubanos, Fatales, Gánster, Kater Piler, Lagartos, Latin Kings, Lobos, Los p.27, Los Tiburones, Mafia 18 , Mafia Trébol, Patrones, R7, Tiguerones”.
