Machala
In less than seven hours this Thursday in the province of El Oro there were three murders. The number of crimes perpetrated in this province until January 5 reached seven.
The first murder was registered in Puerto Bolívar. There, José William Cedeño Parra, 41, received at least fourteen bullet wounds, mainly to the head and chest.
Marcos Egas, head of the Dinased of El Oro, pointed out that the now deceased for some years had been threatened with extortion, which Cedeño had refused to accept, but he announced that with the investigations they would already have the identification of the people who participated in the crime.
Seven violent deaths were registered in less than 24 hours in cities of El Oro
The event occurred near pier 43 of Puerto Bolívar and next to a seafood store, outside which was Cedeño, who was approached by four people who were moving on two motorcycles.
The second crime was reported in the Pasaje canton. The attack was directed against the Venezuelan José Enrique Cambero Hernández, 20 years old, who at the moment of being assassinated was having a rice with chicken lunch in the Delicias de Anita restaurant, in the Pasaje square sector.
Testimonies indicate that two people approached the foreigner to shoot him, in a fact that alarmed other diners at the restaurant, who fled the place.
Cambero was dedicated to the sale of raffles in the Pasaje canton and it was not known that he would have enemies.
With signs of torture, a communicator from El Oro was found dead
The third crime occurred around 10:00 p.m. this Thursday in Machala, when Juan Diego Flores Ruiz was assassinated at a time when he was robbed and his motorcycle was stolen.
Flores was an employee of a local food sales. The Police are investigating the attack on Las Palmeras avenue, near the Luisiño soccer fields, in Machala.
After being shot near the chest area, he was taken to the emergency room of the Teófilo Dávila de Machala hospital, where a few minutes after entering he was found to have died. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso

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