Last May, the Armed Forces carried out the same process with another group of 5,514 firearms.
A total of 4,254 firearms, 606 non-lethal weapons and 8,545 accessories were melted in the furnaces of the Andec company, located in Guasmo, in the south of Guayaquil, last Tuesday 16.
The Joint Command of the Armed Forces, in charge of this process, indicated that all the material had the supporting documentation, delivery and receipt certificates legalized by the arms control agencies.
The destroyed weapons were part of seizures, seizures and voluntary deliveries that do not appear as evidence in any judicial process or military operations to control weapons, ammunition and explosives (Camex) deployed in the national territory.
The destruction took place based on the provisions of ministerial agreement No. 429 of October 14, 2021, in which the Ministry of Defense delegates to the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces to carry out the procedures for the declaration of obsolescence and subsequent destruction of weapons.
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Last May, the Armed Forces destroyed another group of 5,514 firearms, 482 non-lethal weapons and 5,764 accessories for their manufacture.
During the state of exception, from October 19 to November 16 of this year, in Guayas 55,595 operations have been carried out, which include the registration of 344,404 vehicles and 389,474 citizens. The main results include the arrest of 972 people for different crimes, the seizure of 192 firearms, the dismantling of 26 gangs, and the seizure of 6,437 kilograms of drugs and 81 knives. In addition, the authorities determined the retention of 358 motorcycles and achieved the recovery of 74 vehicles reported as stolen.
Despite the operations, violent deaths continue in Guayaquil. Between the afternoon and night of last Tuesday, at least four murder victims were registered. One of the events that caused commotion was the double crime of a couple who was in a house of the Potes cooperative, in southern Guasmo.
Three subjects knocked down the metal door in a corner house and fired a burst of shots that ended the lives of a woman and a man who was accompanying her at the time. The event occurred around 2:00 p.m. (I)
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