Police reported on Thursday that clashes between rival gangs killed at least 10 people in a second deadly prison riot in Ecuador within days. The violence erupted at a prison in the troubled coastal city of Esmeraldas, near the Colombian border, where authorities found 10 inmates dead across two cell blocks. The gruesome scene included victims who were decapitated and disemboweled, raising Ecuador’s prison death toll to approximately 500 since 2021.
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