At least two new explosions are registered in Ecuador after the explosion of car bombs

At least two other explosions were recorded overnight on Thursday in Ecuadorapparently linked to the series of car bombs that exploded since Wednesday in various parts of the country, along with riots in some prisons.

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In the Andean city of Basin (south) there was an explosion in the sector of Totoracochainformed the press a firefighter who attended the on-site emergencyin which a vehicle can be seen with its damaged structure in the rear right part.

He indicated that no injuries were reported from that explosion, although the windows of a nearby house were destroyed, and he mentioned that another explosion was also reported on Thursday afternoon in Basinbut details of that case are unknown.

On the other hand, the Police reported this Friday the capture of four people, who were mobilizing in a taxi, inside which they were transporting explosive material (dynamite wads).

A soldier searches a man on an access road to the Turi prison in Cuenca, Ecuador, on September 1, 2023. (Photo by Fernando MACHADO/AFP) (FERNANDO MACHADO/)

“The antisocial presumably they would be related to the detonation of a gas tank on the sector bridge Archidonain the province of Napo, where there were no material or personal damages”, he pointed out.

This Friday, the Police also reported the arrest of three citizens for the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition in the tropical province of Santo Sunday of the Tsáchilas.

On his side, the media from the province of Goldborder with Perureported damage to a bridge after the explosion, apparently of explosives, occurred during the early hours of this Friday.

Neighbors of the place detailed that they heard two explosions on the bridge where, on Thursday, they had seen unknown persons abandon a gas bottlea fact that alerted the population.

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PROCESS FOR TERRORISM

The State Attorney General’s Office reported this Friday that the Ecuadorian justice system ordered preventive detention for six of the ten detainees for the explosion of two car bombs in Quito.

On Thursday, the flagrante delicto hearing was established against the six apprehended, allegedly related to the explosion of a vehicle in the sector of the marshalin Quitoan event that occurred about two hours before the explosion of a second vehicle.

According to prosecutionaccepting his reasoned request, a judge ordered the preventive prison for the six defendants (five Ecuadorians and one Colombian) for the crime of terrorism.

Authorities reported Thursday that after the explosion of the second car bomb four other people were arrested for their alleged relationship with the incident.

Police officers and an ambulance outside the Turi prison in Cuenca, Ecuador, on September 1, 2023. (Photo by Fernando MACHADO/AFP) (FERNANDO MACHADO/)

Police Commander-in-Chief, Faust Salinashas indicated that one of the hypotheses that they handle within the investigation is that behind it is a criminal gang that wants to exhibit its power after the interventions carried out by state forces in the prisons to disarm these groups that control the prisons internally.

They also consider that they may be motivated as a protest by a series of transfers of prisoners who were changed prisons.

The two car bombs in Quito exploded near buildings linked to the National Comprehensive Care Service for Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), the state department in charge of the control and administration of prisons in Ecuador.

The first one exploded on Wednesday night in front of a government building where former offices of the SNAIwhile the second exploded at dawn on Thursday in front of another building with offices of the same state agency.

None of the two bursts caused victims.

According to the authorities, some of the detainees have a history of robbery, illegal possession weapons, murder and illicit association.

For the Minister of the Interior, Juan Zapatathe explosions are “actions classified as terrorist because they seek to instill in the citizenry terror, panic and fear”.

Source: Elcomercio