Military personnel guard the exteriors of the penitentiary, while several tactical units of the National Police were deployed to the site.
New clashes were registered in the Litoral Penitentiary on the night of this Friday 12.
Inhabitants of urbanizations near this prison indicated that they began to hear detonations from 5:00 p.m. After 22:00, these clashes continued, as the sounds of the gunfire continued.
One citizen even reported that a bullet hit a bedroom of her home, located in a residential complex near the prison.
Military personnel guard the exteriors of the penitentiary, while several tactical units of the National Police were deployed to the site.
A helicopter flew over the area for about thirty minutes, according to residents of urbanizations near the prison.
Until 22:00, the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) did not offer details about these new incidents.
ECU911 reported at 21:48 that the road ear located at kilometer 25 of the Perimetral road and kilometer 15.5 of the road to Daule were closed to traffic in both directions.
In several sections of the road, a high traffic congestion is registered after 22:00. Agents from the Ecuadorian Transit Commission (CTE) and the Transit and Mobility Agency (ATM) are in various areas.
The ECU911 suggested that drivers take alternate lanes.
At dawn on Friday the 12th, three inmates were apprehended while trying to enter weapons into the Litoral Penitentiary. They damaged an enclosure of the prison.
The subjects were detained in the internal street that connects the Penitentiary with the Regional and the women’s prison.
Police agents seized 2 rifles, 5 pistols, 4,494 9 mm cartridges, 250 38 mm cartridges, 100 45 mm cartridges, 75 sticks of dynamite, 3 grenades, 8 feeders, 2 shears. (I)
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