During the second day of military operations, there were no violent deaths in the city, however, this Thursday more deaths were counted.
In recent months, there have been an average of two violent deaths per day in Zone 8, made up of Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón, in fact to date there are 523 cases between the three cantons. However, this Wednesday, October 20, the second day of military operations in the streets, there were no murders.
Twelve murders were recorded in the area over the weekend. On Monday, October 18, two women were murdered; one was shot by a hit man in a park in Sauces 6 and the other victim was shot in the chest about 200 meters from the first scene. It happened in the 11th stage of the cdla. Alborada, when the woman resisted a pencil sharpener that took $ 6,000 that she had just withdrawn from a nearby bank.
On Tuesday, a man was shot in his car in southern Guasmo. He received 14 shots and his body was picked up by Forensic Medicine outside the Guasmo hospital.
On Wednesday there was an apparent calm, but it did not last long, as on Thursday violent deaths in the city resumed. A man, who allegedly participated in a robbery, died after a confrontation with the police. It also occurred in Guasmo, a sector that belongs to the Southern District, which holds the record for the highest number of murders. The figure has already reached 117 cases so far in 2021. Last year, in the same period, there were 56 cases.
But there is also a district of Guayaquil that does not register a single violent death this year. There have been no murders in Los Ceibos. During 2020, to date, there were already 6 cases. (I)
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