At least 9 people shot dead while playing at the bar in Ecuador Tourist City:

At least nine people were shot dead on Saturday while playing in a tourist city in southwest Ecuador, said the country’s prosecutor’s office.

A group of armed men opened fire against several people in a bar in a working -class neighborhood of General Villamil Playas, a coastal city in the province and destination of southern Guayas for local tourists.

Prosecutor Ecuadore said on social networks that “armed people entered the establishment and fired those present.”

The authorities said they were looking for images of security cameras and cell phone videos in an effort to identify the suspects.

In a separate social networks publication, the office published an image of officers on the scene, saying that the bodies had been eliminated and the ballistic evidence recovered from the scene.

Viral images on social networks showed at least nine bloody bodies around several billiards.

The local media reports said the attackers were armed with automatic rifles.

In the bar where the massacre occurred, the relatives held two coffins on Saturday night. The bullet holes were visible at the pool tables, according to images captured by an News reporter.

Police colonel Jhanon Varela told the media that two people were injured in the attack and treated in a local hospital.

The authorities have only been able to identify a body on the scene.

“Unfortunately, when the police arrive, many of those affected by this event are eliminated from the scene by residents and family,” Varela said. “It is presumed that there may be more victims.”

The Prefect of Guayas, Marcela Aguinaga, said that one of the victims was a coach at a provincial football school.

Aguinaga wrote on social networks: “Violence … seeks to put ourselves on your knees, silence and get used to horror. But we will not be silent. We will not give up.”

Ola of violence in Ecuador

The shooting occurs when Ecuador experiences its most violent beginning in a year in recent history, according to experts.

In the first five months of 2025, Ecuador registered 4,051 homicides, according to official figures.

Drug trafficking organizations have multiplied in Ecuador, where the homicide rate increased from six per 100,000 residents in 2018 to 38 per 100,000 in 2024.

After the recapture in June of the country’s largest drug dealer, Adolfo MaciasAka Fito, after its escape from a maximum security prison in 2024, the criminal violence of the gangs continues incessantly.

The Ecuadorian Government on Sunday Extradited macias to the United States and he He declared himself innocent Mondays.

An accusation of seven without sealing positions in Brooklyn accuses Macías and an unidentified coacuse with the international distribution of cocaine, conspiracy and arms count, including the smuggling of firearms in the United States.

This week, in the western province of Manabi, the strength of Fito and its Los Choneros gang, at least 20 people died in mortal violence in several cities, including Manta, where Fitto was recaptured.

Last year, the United States classified the Choneros as one of the most violent gangs and affirmed their connection with powerful Mexican drug cartels who threaten Ecuador and the surrounding region.

On Saturday afternoon, Interior Minister John Reimberg announced greater security in Manta, one of Ecuador’s main fishing ports, with 2,500 police officers “deployed at strategic points.”

Once considered a bastion of peace in Latin America, Ecuador has been sunk in crisis after years of expansion by transnational posters that use their ports to send drugs to the United States and Europe.

Earlier this year, a leader of one of the largest crimes unions in Ecuador, the wolves, was arrested at home in the coastal city of Portoviejo. Carlos D, widely known for his alias El Chino, was the second in command of the wolves and “considered a target of high value,” the armed forces said in a statement.

He United States last year declared Lobos Be the largest drug trafficking organization in Ecuador.

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