Criminals dressed in fake military forms EcuadorKilling 12 unarmed people and injuring several others, police in the South American nation, which was launched by violence, said on Friday.
On Thursday's security attacks showed a group of at least five people who went into the arena and opened fire with automatic rifles on the crowd in the rural community of La Valencia in the northwest Ecuador.
Attackers were dressed in military uniforms – general tactics criminal groups in the countryWhat averaged every hour at the beginning of the year, when the cartels are caused by the cocaine passing through Ecuador.
Personnel common in social media showed that the audience rushed to the ground and hiding behind the places.
“We had 12 people who died as a result of an armed attack of a criminal group,” said Police Colonel Renan Miller in a statement. He said several people were injured without giving the number.
Police detained four people, including the “goal of the interim value”, the head of the national police Victor Hugo Zara wrote In social media. The police have shown Four suspects are expected to be a criminal group called “LOS R7”.
After the attack, police found that “military uniform” and two abandoned cars on the nearby highway, Miller River added. One of the cars was burning, the other overturned.
Police Released video on social networks Showing officers who restore the evidence hidden under bags and tree branches. The video also showed that weapons and cash, as well as an image of four in custody with their faces.
Ecuador's National Police 
In addition to the uniform, the police said it had healed eight rifles, four pistols, three rifles, eight magazines, 11 cell phones, ballistic helmets and tactical gloves.
Ecuador lives about 20 criminal groups – with such bright names as “Los -Freddi Krugers” and “Peak -Slop” – Participation in trafficking, abductions and extortion. They inflicted chaos in the country 18 million, squeezing between the world's largest manufacturers of cocaine, Peru and Colombia.
In recent years, the nation has been immersed in the violence of the rapid spread of transnational cartels that use their ports to send drugs to the US and Europe.
About 73 percent of the world cocaine passes through Ecuador, the Ministry of Internal Affairs report said.
A considerable part of the country is under the emergency position recently updated President Daniel Novoawhich was re -elected for a second term in the elections last Sunday.
Ecuador's gangs aimed at the US
As a result, the NOBO company suggested that Ecuador will need to place special US forces to combat drug violence and swimed legal reforms to allow us to work in the country.
At least two high -profile leaders of the Ecuadorian gang, directed at the United States, made headlines this year. Earlier this month was the fugitive leader of “Los -sherono”, who relied on hitmen, bribes and military weapons engaged in business accused of New York On charges, he imported thousands of pounds to the United States. Jose Adolf Makys Wilamar – whose nickname “Issue” – escaped from prison in Ecuador last year and is not in custody in the US.
In 2024, Treasury US, imposed by sanctions On “Los Choneros”.
Earlier this year, the leader of one of Ecuador -Lobas's largest criminal syndicates was Arrested in his house In the coastal city of Portovio. Carlos D, widely known for its alias “El Kina”, was the second on the business trip “Los Labas” and “considered a high-cost purpose”,-said in a statement of the armed forces.
A US Last year announced Los -Lobas Being the largest drug trafficking in Ecuador.