QUITO—A day of violent rioting at a prison in southwest Ecuador on Sunday caused the deaths of at least 31 inmates, the country’s prisons agency said.
Twenty-seven prisoners in port town Machala, south of Guayaquil, died due to asphyxiation and “immediate death by hanging,” according to a statement shared on X by the SNAI prisons agency. There were no other details about how the prisoners died.
