There are 61 deceased. Until 06:00, Criminalistics personnel had identified 34 bodies by fingerprints and carried out 28 autopsies.
The process of identifying the inmates murdered between Friday night and early Saturday morning at the Litoral Penitentiary continued this Sunday morning at the Criminalistics Laboratory of the Judicial Police, located in the west of Guayaquil. At noon, Colonel Marco Ortiz said that 61 bodies were raised from the prison facilities.
Relatives who had crowded outside the morgue since the morning began to enter the parking area. Tents and chairs were installed at the site to care for the relatives of the 61 fatalities from the last conflict between inmates. Until the afternoon of this Sunday 34 bodies have been identified and of those, 15 have already been delivered to relatives.
Criminalistics is in the process of identifying and conducting medicolegal autopsies.
Every fifteen minutes, police called the relatives of the inmates, who entered through the sentry box and observed the photos of the deceased.
Then, personnel from the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion (MIES) accompanied them to wait until the recognition of the body.
The Guayaquil Fire Department and the Technical Secretariat for Human Rights also collaborated at the site.
There was an information booth where citizens inquired about the identification of the deceased. However, the uncertainty in other people continued, as their relatives had not yet been identified.
Until 06:00, Criminalistics personnel had identified 34 bodies by fingerprints and carried out 28 autopsies.
An inmate was electrocuted in his attempted escape from the Machala prison
Likewise, procedures began to identify 20 bodies that were cremated by other inmates.
In the midst of the pain, the families told of the truncated hope that their family would soon regain their freedom, as in the case of John Campozano, who was in the transitory area of the Litoral Penitentiary serving preventive detention while waiting for the trial hearing. .
The citizen had been in that area for three months and was one of the victims in the massacre in the Guayaquil prison.
His sister, Mildred Campozano, was taking steps to remove the body. She hugged with relatives who accompanied her. Through tears, he said that he was awaiting a favorable sentence in the coming weeks. (I)
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