He left a medical appointment and they made him express kidnapping. 68-year-old woman ends up in ICU with disfigured face and collapsed lung

Express kidnapping is another criminal modality that plagues Guayaquil. This time the victim was a 68-year-old woman who ended up in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a medical home after the crooks beat her up.

According to those close to the woman, at 19:00 last Monday she took an informal taxi on Av. San Jorge, in the Kennedy citadel, to return from a medical appointment to his home, in the center of the city. But at the intersection of Tungurahua and Clemente Ballén, under the alleged complicity of the driver, a man embarked to dock her.

The woman was unable to disembark and was harshly attacked inside the car given the severity of her injuries: she has a collapsed lung, broken ribs, and a disfigured face. If they did not kill her it is because God exists, described a friend who visited her and who recounted her tragedy on social networks, where the event went viral and contracted the rejection of Internet users who demand more security in the middle of a state of exception for the crime wave that Guayaquil suffers.

A friend of the victim said that she was held for almost three hours and was finally abandoned in Cuenca and the 16th, bleeding and unable to stand up. Some young people who were riding a bicycle notified the police about the scene they found and she was transferred to a clinic, where her status is reserved.

The incident occurred after the first week of a state of emergency declared nationwide due to high crime rates. This is especially the case in Guayaquil, where the military and police check about a thousand vehicles every day. But citizens demand more presence in the streets, not only in the critical points that the Government of Guayas or the Municipality has identified. (I)