Zone 8 had an average of five murders per day during January; there were 61 more cases than in 2022

2023 began with a war announced by the gangs that are fighting over parts of the northwest and south of Guayaquil for the sale of substances and the collection of vaccines, for this reason several entire families have been shot and even minors have died during January. first month of the year.

In southern Guasmo, a couple who was with their two-month-old baby was riddled with bullets on January 10 in the doorway of their house. The parents survived the attack, but the minor died.

A similar story was experienced in the northwest of Guayaquil, where six members of a family were shot at their home when the hit men entered at dawn, while they were sleeping. There two minors were injured and one of them died.

Days later, three young men were shot in front of their mother when they were at a family reunion in the Horizontes del Fortín cooperative, in Nueva Prosperina, a district where violent deaths have been reported daily and where they have left heads, legs and other parts of dismembered bodies. .

Until the afternoon of this January 30 in Zone 8 (Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón) 161 murders were registered, 61% more than last year, when there were 100 cases to date.

Nueva Prosperina, Sur and Esteros, the districts with the most murders in the first 15 days of 2023; Why is the violence concentrated in these places in Guayaquil?

Only three cases have been resolved this year, the other 158 are still under investigation, according to official data.

Every day 5.3 people die violently in the three cantons, the statistics reveal.

The district with the highest rates is Nueva Prosperina, with 52 cases, 38 more deaths than last year. It is followed by the South district with 21 murders to date, only 2 more cases than in 2022.

Third on the list is Florida, with 19 cases, and Portete with 15. Pascuales also has 15. Esteros has 10 cases.

What draws the attention of the Police is that last year the district that registered the most deaths was Durán, which in the first 30 days of 2022 already had a record of 18 deaths. Now in that canton only 6 cases have been reported.

This confirms that the crime changes and even migrates to other areas that are now in dispute. For example, in recent weeks there have been at least 15 murders in the Mount Sinai circuit.

Between January 18 and 19, six linear motorcycle drivers were killed on Avenida Casuarina, who provide passenger transport services in sectors that are difficult to access, where buses or trikes do not arrive.

They, according to the residents, were related to the trafficking of substances and the collection of vaccines in businesses in the sector.

In less than 24 hours, six motorcycle drivers who provided informal transportation services on Mount Sinai were murdered

That is the new business (collection of vaccines) of these gangs, reveal the residents, who regret the death of a woman who attended their pharmacy and who was murdered in cold blood on January 20 by a vaccinator who went to ask for money and the woman tried to ignore him while serving a customer.

Police figures reveal that 89% of the victims have died from criminal violence, that is, 143 people. The other 14 (9%) were killed by interpersonal violence and 4 (2%) by sociopolitical violence.

The report also details that of the 161 deaths to date, 9 of the victims were women. It is also known that 147 were Ecuadorians and 14 foreigners.

The analysis of the data also reveals that 19 of the fatalities were under 20 years of age, 107 were between 20 and 39 years of age, 32 victims were between 40 and 59 years of age, and 3 people who died violently were over 60 years of age. (YO)