(News in development)
Inhabitants and those who circulated through nearby streets and adjoining the Playita del Guasmo, in the south of Guayaquil, reported a new shooting in that area, on the night of this Thursday the 10th.
There were citizens who even recorded videos after the shooting, where people were seen running to help the wounded who were on the ground. Residents spoke of about four wounded by firearms.
Until 11:20 p.m., the National Police still did not give details or confirm if there were deaths and injuries due to this new violent event that is recorded in Guayaquil, a city where the military joined the control operations in the streets since January 23. past, by presidential order, to try to contain the crime wave in the Pacific’s pearl.
In social networks, in accounts like @Cupsfire_gye It is indicated that at 9:45 p.m. there was a report of several people injured by firearms in the Playita del Guasmo. When the first ambulance arrived at the site, the injured had already been transferred by other means to nearby health houses.
Residents say that the attack on Thursday the 10th occurred in the Amazonas 2 cooperative, a few blocks from the Playita del Guasmo, and that the wounded were taken to places such as the Guasmo Sur Hospital. Three of the victims were seriously injured, it was said.
There was another armed attack on the Playita field last month
On the night of last January 21, there was a shooting on a field in Playita del Guasmo, which left five dead and nine wounded in total, according to information from the National Police at the time.
That night of January 21, its inhabitants lived minutes of horror in that armed attack. There, some 20 men landed in the Playita del Guasmo sector with pistols, rifles and machine guns, and opened fire on the sports field in the area, where dozens of young people were gathered as usual in this sector on Fridays.
With pistols, rifles and machine guns they attacked men who opened fire on the field of Playita del Guasmo, on Friday the 21st, the day there were 10 murders in Guayaquil
The screams, the confusion, the running from one side to the other to try to save their lives and the calls for help were the tone of those violent minutes that the inhabitants lived on the night of that January 21.
And that fear, even of being victims of a stray bullet, was repeated tonight, Thursday, February 10, in several of its inhabitants.
In that area, it is said that the members of the Los Rusos and Los Lagartos criminal gangs are fighting over the territory, as they all want to control the route through which the drugs that later contaminate the ships come out.
Los Rusos and Los Lagartos, involved in the shooting at Playita del Guasmo
Prior to the shooting on January 21, armed individuals shot at some young people who were in the street on the night of Thursday the 20th. Three died on the spot. Later it was said that those deceased were from the Los Lagartos gang.
For this reason, and in revenge, Los Lagartos attacked and opened fire indiscriminately against those who were on the field of Playita del Guasmo, the night of that January 21, according to the versions that residents told the National Police on that occasion. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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