Ecuador Prison Violence Leaves at Least 58 Dead, a Dozen Injured, Government Says

Ecuador Prison Violence Leaves at Least 58 Dead, a Dozen Injured, Government Says
The body of a prisoner appears surrounded by police on the roof of the Litoral penitentiary the morning after riots broke out inside the jail in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Nov. 13, 2021. Jose Sanchez/AP Photo
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QUITO—At least 58 prisoners were killed and a dozen injured in overnight violence at Ecuador’s Penitenciaria del Litoral prison, the government said on Saturday, in what has been characterized as fighting between gangs.

The penitentiary, located in the southern city of Guayaquil, is the same prison where 119 inmates were killed in late September in the country’s worst-ever incident of prison violence.