Car explodes in front of police station in Ecuador | VIDEO

A car exploded this Sunday in front of a police station in the port Ecuadorian of Guayaquil (southwest), which was branded as “terrorist attack” by a police chief, who did not report victims.

A police community policing unit was “object of a terrorist aggression through the explosion of a so-called car bomb”said the colonel Maximilian Maldonadochief of the Florida district, a sector located in the north of Guayaquil.

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In accordance with MaldonadoThe explosion left no deaths or injuries. He added that there is “small damage” to a nearby police vehicle.

Ecuador faces an increase in criminal violence associated with drug trafficking. So far this year, the authorities have seized some 90 tons of drugs.

The Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office reported that a person was arrested in the framework of the investigation in this case.

“Possibly this attack is from the criminal group known as Los Tiguerones”he pointed Maldonadoadding that the alleged perpetrators painted a legend with the name of the organization on a car that was parked near the place.

The police chief added that the explosion could be a “reprisal” by “the work that the police have been doing” in the sector.

A little over a month ago, in front of a prison complex in Guayaquil, another vehicle exploded without leaving any victims.

Earlier, the Minister of the Interior, Patricio Carrillo, indicated that “Police clean graffiti and symbolism of criminal organizations and receive attacks.”

At dawn. A car bomb exploded outside the police station in Florida, north of #Guayaquil. There were no injuries. pic.twitter.com/aD2z8lFmrl

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“Organized crime will not stop the fight to return peace to Ecuadorians,” Carrillo wrote on Twitter.

Last week, in his annual work report, President Guillermo Lasso stated that the country faces a “bloody reaction” to the fight against drug trafficking and crime.

Ecuador It closed 2021 with a rate of 14 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, almost double that of 2020. That year, it seized a record 210 tons of drugs.

According to the authorities, at least 20 criminal organizations operate in the country, of which some 18 have been identified.

Source: Elcomercio

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