{"id":51560,"date":"2025-10-14T10:21:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/14-people-killed-17-wounded-in-ecuador-attacks-with-some-victims-showing-signs-of-torture\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:21:41","slug":"14-people-killed-17-wounded-in-ecuador-attacks-with-some-victims-showing-signs-of-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/14-people-killed-17-wounded-in-ecuador-attacks-with-some-victims-showing-signs-of-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"14 people killed, 17 wounded in Ecuador attacks, with some victims showing &#8220;signs of torture&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/ecuador\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ecuador<\/a> on Monday reported two attacks that left 14 people dead and 17 wounded, with some of the victims showing signs of torture.<\/p>\n<p>The South American nation is a point of departure for cocaine shipments to the United States and Europe, and a hub for some 20 criminal groups involved in extortion and contract killings.<\/p>\n<p>The first attack occurred around 11 pm Sunday (0400 GMT) in Guayaquil, Ecuador&#8217;s largest city and the capital of Guayas province.<\/p>\n<p>As many as seven people got off motorcycles and pickup trucks and fired shots at a neighborhood soccer game, local police colonel Carlos Fuentes told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The attack, which was attributed to the so-called <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ecuador-mafias-freddy-kruegers-peaky-blinders-terrorize-citizens-extortion-murder\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Freddy Kruger gang<\/a><\/span>, left six dead and 17 injured, including three minors who were at the sporting event.<\/p>\n<p>Police also reported finding eight bodies in the town of Buena Fe, located in the southwestern province of Los Rios.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, four men and four women, had &#8220;signs of torture&#8221; with their hands tied together with duct tape and &#8220;their heads covered in black bags,&#8221; according to a local police report.<\/p>\n<p>Local media said the group were part of a larger group of 12 who had traveled to the area from the capital Quito. The other four members of the party, an older women and three girls, remain missing.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador recorded more than 4,600 homicides in the first half of the year, a 47% increase from the same period of 2024, data from the Ecuadoran Observatory of Organized Crime shows.<\/p>\n<p>Once considered one of Latin America&#8217;s safest nations, Ecuador has seen a dramatic surge in violence in recent years as its location between two of the world&#8217;s largest cocaine producers, Colombia and Peru, has made it a major transit hub for narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>The country has recently been rocked by deadly prison attacks linked to drug gangs. Last month, officials said <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ecuador-prison-riot-deaths-2nd-massacre-days\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">17 people were killed<\/a><\/span> in a riot in an Ecuadoran prison, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals. <\/p>\n<p>Just days before that,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/prison-clashes-ecuador-deaths-inmates-escape\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">13 prisoners and a guard<\/a><\/span>\u00a0were reported killed in southwest Ecuador.\u00a0 Officials said the dead inmates belonged to the rival Los Choneros and Los Lobos gangs, two of the biggest drug trafficking groups in Ecuador. The\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rubio-us-designating-ecuador-gangs-foreign-terrorist-groups\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">U.S. recently designated<\/a><\/span>\u00a0both gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ecuador-los-choneros-gang-leader-fito-indicted-us-vanished-prison-cell\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jos\u00e9 Adolfo Mac\u00edas Villamar<\/a><\/span>, alias Fito, is \u00a0the boss of the Los Choneros gang, and he was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jose-adolfo-macias-fito-recaptured-ecuador\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">recaptured in June<\/a><\/span>\u00a0this year, more than a year after escaping prison. 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