After the intervention of special units of the National Police, large-caliber weapons, explosives and other prohibited items were seized at the Litoral Penitentiary, early this Friday, February 25.
Agents from the Intervention and Rescue Group (GIR), the Special Operations Group (GOE), the Order Maintenance Unit and the Special Mobile Anti-Narcotics Group participated in the operation.
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The groups of these units entered the prison due to the registered disturbances, which included shots in several pavilions during the night of this Thursday 24.
During the searches, the agents managed to seize a rifle, a handmade submachine gun, four firearms, eight chargers, dozens of cartridges and drug wraps.
These articles were found heated in cells and common spaces.
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In the patio of pavilion 4, an inmate was injured in one of his feet by the impact of a fragmented splinter from a stray bullet, explained General Víctor Zárate, commander of Zone 8 of the National Police.
During the morning of this Friday, soldiers remained on the perimeter of the pavilions of the penitentiary center and in the outside area, on the road to Daule. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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