Rioverde, ESMERALDAS
Five wounded by projectile impacts, including a police officer and three minors, was the report of a shooting recorded in the Palestina sector, in the Rioverde canton, north of the province of Esmeraldas, on the night of this Saturday the 19th.
The attack was on a house in this town, near the bridge, at 7:00 p.m., reported locals who asked for help through ECU 911.
Three new murders were registered in the province of Esmeraldas in the last hours; one of the victims is a taxi driver from Quinindé
Police officers from the nearby UPC arrived at the scene, but intervened when reinforcements and patrol cars from the Esmeraldas district arrived.
According to the preliminary report of the Police, the attackers would have arrived in a gray double cab truck, which was left stuck in a sports field. Then they would have fled in another car heading for the Esmeraldeña capital.
A gendarme was wounded by a bullet in one of his feet. A patrol car was shot in the area of a Palestine gas station, while they were carrying out raids in the area of the shooting.
One of the wounded with a bullet to the height of the right arm was taken in a private truck to the Type C subcenter of Rioverde. He is 23 years old.
The five injured were stable this Sunday, according to the Emergency area of a health home in Esmeraldas, where they were admitted.
This weekend’s incident occurred about 13 kilometers from Colope, where on Sunday the 13th of this month, four people died and one was injured in a shooting and a traffic accident.
Two murders were recorded in Esmeraldas, while the Minister of Defense visited a military battalion in this province
Víctor Herrera, commander of Zone 1, said that police units are in the territory collecting all the evidence that will allow generating hypotheses and launching an investigation to find the intellectual authors, accomplices and accessories to these events.
The confrontation in Palestine would be between criminal groups, according to the Police. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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