At least 40 dead and several wounded It was the balance of a mutiny registered this Monday in the prison of the city of Santo Domingo, about 80 km from Quito, in Ecuador. According to him Minister of the Interior, Patricio Carrillothe police operation prevented the escape of 40 people “who were immediately recaptured in the external fences by the Armed Force and the National Police”.
In addition, he assured that they already have the minimum and medium security pavilions under control. And that “the National Police is currently taking operational actions in the maximum security pavilion,” reported the Regional News Agency (ARN).
“So far there are 43 dead inmates“, indicated the State Attorney General’s Office through Twitter.
#URGENT |#SantoDomingoDeLosTsáchilas: after a riot at the CRS Bellavista in #Santo Domingo, #AttorneyEc Y @PoliceEcuador they pick up clues and receive versions on the spot. So far there are 43 deceased inmates (in development). #Prosecutor’s Office Against Crime pic.twitter.com/TayLwUoEUr
– Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office (@FiscaliaEcuador) May 9, 2022
This Monday’s riot, which began around dawn, occurs a month after the one recorded in the Cuenca jail who left 20 inmates deceased and at least 10 others wounded. “The problems are absolutely recurrent,” added the interior minister.
And he pointed out: “we are controlling and arranging some actions so that violence does not break out in the rest of the centers.” “We are going to clean the weapons and start, just like the previous time, the ringleader identification to transfer them to maximum security centers,” he added.
The riot in the Santo Domingo prison began at dawn on Monday. The head of the interior reported that he will travel to the area to make an assessment of what happened.
Since February 2021, some 350 prisoners have died in Ecuadorian prisons, amid unbridled violence that the government attributes to the confrontation of criminal gangs linked to drug traffickingAFP reported.
Despite the measures ordered, such as the allocation of a budget, the transfer of the most dangerous inmates to a single center and the creation of a pacification commission, the government of the president William Lasso It has not been able to stop the escalation of violence, which is among the worst in Latin America.