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A homemade explosive device was left outside the Ramedi hotel, near the Las Palmas scenic boardwalk, in the north of the city of Esmeraldas.
Unknown persons located him at the entrance door of a restaurant that works on the ground floor of the hotel, at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16. Local employees told police officers that a subject would have tried to light the fuse twice, but it did not activate.
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A worker from a food store threw a chair at one of the individuals who installed the explosive and they fled the site, they said.
Hotel guests, employees, residents and urban transporters who had parked their cars in the sector were evacuated by the police. A block around Del Pacífico and Bastidas avenues, where the tourist complex is located, was also cordoned off.
The establishment is owned by the Arteaga family, and on Monday of this week it was robbed in one of its clothing stores, on the corner of Rocafuerte and Olmedo.
Pablo Román, investigation officer in charge of this procedure, said that the content of the explosive was analyzed and it was located inside some tires.
Specialists from the Anti-Explosives Unit arrived from Quito for its controlled detonation in a secluded place on the beach of Las Palmas, at 11:00 p.m. last night.
So far this year, similar threats have been registered with devices detonated in economic units in Esmeraldas.
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Warnings that would be to demand money through extortion from the owners of these businesses who refuse to pay. Request that they also presumably make with flyers that they leave in the portals of selected businesses and homes.
Police officers also located motorcycles without registration from the National Transit Agency (ANT) that were hidden in the brush. A 32 caliber revolver was also found. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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