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Gunmen Kill 17, Injure 14 in Bar Massacre in Ecuador

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At least 17 people were killed and 14 others were injured when gunmen opened fire at a crowded bar in Ecuador, according to officials and local media reports. The attack occurred around 9 p.m. on Sunday in the town of El Empalme, in Ecuador’s Guayas region, during festivities leading up to the parish’s anniversary, according to local officials. Witnesses said a group of around 50 people had gathered at the open-air bar when two trucks arrived ca…

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Guayas, a small coastal town in southwestern Ecuador, celebrated the 73rd anniversary of his declaration as a parish when, around nine o’clock on Sunday night, hitmen broke into a bar and opened fire. 16 people died on the spot and 14 others were injured. The attackers, who arrived in two vans, also shot during the escape against the people who were on the street. Three teenagers walking around were hit by bullets; one of them, barely 12 years o…

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The attackers identified themselves as members of one of the organized crime gangs that most affects the country. Organized crime entry in Ecuador: 17 people were gunned down in a coastal area dominated by drug trafficking was first published in #BorderJournalism.

At least 14 people died on Sunday (27) following two armed attacks in the canton of El Empalme in the coastal province of Guayas in the south-west of Ecuador. The incidents occurred in an area plagued by violence between drug gangs, in the context of the internal armed conflict proclaimed by President Daniel Noboa's government in January 2024. [...] The post massacre in Ecuador: At least 14 deaths in attack in the coastal province of Guayas firs…

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latinapress Nachrichten broke the news in on Monday, July 28, 2025.
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