In El Tambo and in Salasaca, personnel from the Special Operations Group (GOE), Judicial Police, Criminalistics and the military carried out controls.
Pelileo, TUNGURAHUA
In order to reduce the informal commercialization of pyrotechnic material, an activity characteristic of the period close to the Christmas and New Year festivities, in the Pelileo canton, Tungurahua province, operations were carried out in which, among other products, gunpowder was seized that They use the workshops dedicated to making these supplies.
Both in the El Tambo sector and in Salasaca, personnel from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Special Operations Group (GOE), the Judicial Police, Criminalistics and the Armed Forces participated in the operation carried out this Saturday.
One killed by an explosion in an alleged pyrotechnic factory, in Pelileo
It was indicated that in El Tambo they raided a building where they found 85 flyers, 2 bottles and 3 cases with gunpowder, 59 powder tacos, 17 flares of lights, 44 shots of gunpowder, 1 light bomb, 23 black / brown wicks, 1 roll of brown wick and 5 pull ropes.
While in Salasaca, 23 flyers, 2 handmade flyers, 6 blocks with wicks for lights, 220 black wicks for flyers, 31 pounds of black powder and 11 pounds of antimony sulfate.
On the night of Tuesday, November 16, in the Bellavista neighborhood of the Santa Rosa parish, in Ambato, the explosion was recorded in a workshop where fireworks were made. As a result of the event, Miriam Toainga, 27, died.
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On that occasion, the governor of Tungurahua, Fernando Gavilanes, called for awareness of the danger involved in handling these inputs.
He anticipated that the chiefdoms and political positions, together with the National Police and the Army, would activate actions that allow finding the sites where this type of artifact is made. (I)
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