The Police of reported this Saturday that it managed to rescue two of its agents who were kidnapped by organized crime groups, while new disturbances were reported in some prisons, with the escape of at least six prisoners and one inmate dead, where some 170 are still held hostage. prison officials.

The Police, in a message on their X network account (formerly Twitter), assured that the agents had been kidnapped by an organized crime group at the beginning of this week from a police unit in the The Prairiein the city of Passagein the southern coastal province of Goldbordering Peru.

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After investigative work and search protocols, specialized units carried out several raids that made it possible to locate the place of captivity, where the release of the police officers was achieved, placing them in safekeeping,” highlighted the institution of order.

The Police stressed that they will continue with the “police interventions until those responsible for this incident are found.”

Weapons seized

For its part, the Joint Command of the Armed Forces issued this Saturday a report on the balance of the military operations carried out within the framework of the “state of exception” and the recognition of “internal armed conflict” declared by the Government to stop the spiral. of violence unleashed this week by organized crime groups (GDO) on a national scale.

The military establishment announced that in the coastal province of Manabi “six terrorists were captured who “They had rifles, pistols, shotguns, vehicles and engines in their possession.”

In the neighboring northern province of Emeralds, during military operations a pistol was confiscated; while in Los Ríos (southwest) a subject identified with the alias ‘Tito’ was arrested, accused of leading the criminal gang ‘Los Lobos’ in that jurisdiction, where a gun and three kilos have also been seized. of substances that could be drugs.

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In the coastal province of Guayaswhose capital is the port city of Guayaquilin a joint operation with police, have been arrested “two terrorist leaders of the ‘Los Águilas’ group, who had in their possession a rifle, a submachine gun, a pistol and 55 ammunition (bullets)”the source reported.

In a raid in the city of Tena, capital of the Amazon province of Tena, the military and police operation found “a submachine gun, a feeder (bullet loader), twelve cartridges and several doses” of drugs.

Riots do not stop

On Friday night, the military found a dead inmate when they were touring the exterior of the Machala city prison where 16 prison guards are still being held by mutinous inmates.

Likewise, in the Latacunga regional prison, in the Andean province of Cotopaxi, after an overflight it was verified that a group of mutinous inmates “are wearing bulletproof vests, cell phones, radios” and are holding five prison service agents.

The National Comprehensive Care Service (SNAI) for Persons Deprived of Liberty, the State penitentiary agency, reported this Saturday that during Friday night and this morning “different incidents have occurred” in some prisons.

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However, the SNAI indicated that in the next few hours it will issue a report on the situation in the national prison system, after consolidating the information from different prisons.

However, at least six prisoners escaped from the Litoral Penitentiary, near Guayaquil, the largest and most populated prison in Ecuador. Two of the six escaped inmates had been recaptured near the prison.

Ecuador has endured prisoner riots this week in several prisons in the country, in a spiral of violence that has also taken to the streets, with actions by organized crime groups that have included burning of vehicles, explosive alerts, kidnapping and murder of police officers. , and even an attack with weapons on a television station in Guayaquil.

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