Police say 13 inmates and one prison guard have been killed and another 14 people injured in clashes between rival gangs in a ...

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the ...

Four men and four women had "signs of torture" with their hands tied together and "their heads covered in black bags," ...

Interior Minister John Reimberg accused Ecuadorian gang Los Lobos, which is designated as a “foreign terrorist organisation” ...

A prison riot caused by gang fighting in southern Ecuador on Monday left 14 people dead and another 14 wounded, according to a local police chief.

QUITO (Reuters) -At least 17 people were killed in a prison riot in Ecuador's northern city of Esmeraldas, near the border with Colombia, the country's prison agency said on Thursday. Authorities are ...

Security personnel arrive at the Litoral Penitentiary after a riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 14, 2023 [Vicente Gaibor del Pino/Reuters At least 17 people have been killed in a prison riot in ...

A pickup truck has exploded on a busy shopping street in Guayaquil, Ecuador, killing one person and injuring two others. The ...

The late Friday attack was the fourth of its kind in recent weeks. In August, seven people were killed in a pool hall in the same city. A similar pool hall massacre took place in July in the ...

A family member of one of the 119 inmates killed in a gang-related riot in the Guayaquil, Ecuador prison cries while waiting for news outside a city morgue ...

(CNN) — A violent clash between rival gangs at a prison in the coastal city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, has left at least 17 dead, according to a statement from the National Police. “The situation stems ...