Police recorded a drop in murders in Zone 8 over the weekend, as deaths in the Penitentiary are still being investigated as suicide

During the first week of the state of exception, from October 19 to 25, 11,147 operations were carried out with the registration of 86,154 citizens and 70,665 vehicles in different areas of the Guayas province.

As a result, the Government of Guayas reported this Monday in ECU911, after a meeting, that 220 people have been apprehended for crimes, 49 firearms, 1,1012.9 grams of drugs, 544 motorcycles, 1,647 ammunition, 52 explosives. and 3 drones. In addition, 7 bands were dismantled.

In zone 8, which corresponds to Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón, the forces of order carried out 9,459 operations with the requisition of 40,129 cars and 43,256 people. In the other 22 cantons there were 1,688 interventions with the revision of 15,683 vehicles and 25,924 citizens.

Only in Zone 8 were 132 of the 220 detained for various crimes throughout the province. The rest were captured in the other 22 cantons.

Among the recent interventions, the Police detained two citizens who had 52 explosives, three drones, two pistols, 1,203 cartridges of different caliber and other evidence in a house in a private urbanization on the road to Daule. Those items, according to the police authorities, were intended to enter the Guayaquil prison complex.

The colonel Fredy Sarzosa, commander in charge of zone 8, said that the last weekend there was a drop in violent deaths, compared to the previous weekend when 12 murders were counted. This weekend there were three cases.

Sarzosa ruled out that this decrease in the figures is the product of the operations, however, this weekend, in addition to the deaths of sprinter Alex Quiñónez and singer Cristopher Arcalla, an assassination attempt was reported at the latter’s wake. Two people were injured in that episode and a foreigner was arrested.

The seven deaths registered in the Litoral Penitentiary on Saturday do not add to the figures that the Police now handle with 528 violent deaths so far in 2021. Those seven deaths in prison, as well as the four cases that occurred in The previous week, they are classified as suicides until the preliminary investigation is finished and the opposite is determined, since the inmates were hanging in the cells.

Early this Monday, another violent death occurred in the southern Guasmo. It happened at 03:00 in block 5 of the coop. Unión de Bananeros, where an as yet unidentified man was attacked with a machete. The victim died hours later at the Guasmo hospital. His still unidentified body was taken to the morgue for an autopsy.

On Monday morning, a body was also found in the Guayas River, near the dock of a company located in the La Pradera sector, in the south of Guayaquil. The deceased wore black shorts and did not carry any identification. The police lifted the body, but so far no visible injuries were detected.

Precisely, the Southern District is the one with the highest number of murders. There are at least 119 cases this year. The previous year, in the same period, there were 60 cases. It’s a 100% increase

On New Prosperina son 64 cases those accounted for this year. Last year in this sector there were 24 violent deaths to date. In Durán there are 56 cases, 10 more than last year.

Another district in which the number of murders has increased alarmingly in the center of Guayaquil. The October 9 District In 2020 it registered 20 cases, but so far in 2021 there are already 46.

Despite these worrying figures, there is also the Ceibos District, which against the trend has gone down in 2021. Of six cases registered in 2020, this year has not reported any violent death, however, there have been other crimes such as robberies. (I)