Violent deaths do not stop in Esmeraldas, one of the five provinces with the most crimes in the country. During the last hours, the Police reported the death of three people and one injured.
Ronald Añapa died from gunshot wounds to the chest while he was near a party with his neighbors, in a neighborhood on Luis Vargas Torres Island.
Subjects aboard two motorcycles would have arrived in the sector at around 02:00. Witness versions indicate that the subjects fired several times.
92 kilos of marijuana were seized at the entrance to Esmeraldas; double-bottomed car transported the alkaloid
The gendarmes found deformed bullets on the site that will be analyzed for investigative purposes.
In another case, artisanal fisherman Santiago Valencia died after an attack by sea criminals who tried to steal his outboard motor.
The fisherman was about 9 nautical miles off the coast of Esmeraldas. Without vital signs he was admitted to the Esmeraldas Delfina Torres South Hospital. He received three bullet wounds, on the left side of the chest and on the right leg.
José Charcopa was murdered while he was playing cards with friends, in the sector known as El Arenero, in the Propicia 1 neighborhood.
While José Hernández Guagua was assassinated in a public space in the Patricio Páez neighborhood, where he was sitting on a bench.
In the early hours of this Monday, the 28th, a man was also injured in the Casa Bonita neighborhood, south sector.
Doctors from a nursing home said they managed to save his life and he was hospitalized.
Police officers applied the progressive use of force to close a public dance on December 6 streets between Quito and Calderón, sector of the Folke Anderson stadium, this morning. (I)
Source: Eluniverso

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