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At least one person is killed and several others are injured in a car bomb explosion near a shopping mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2025-10-14

Seventeen people are killed and 15 more injured after a prison riot at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2024-11-12

Maria Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador and the site of the country's deadliest prison riot in 2021, is fatally shot in her vehicle by suspected drug cartel gunmen.
2024-09-13

Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2024-03-31

Six people are killed and eight others injured in a shootout between rival gangs on a street in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador.
2023-06-19

Twelve people are killed after riots break out in a prison in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador.
2023-04-14

Explosive devices disguised as USB flash drives are sent to least five news organizations in Ecuador; one journalist at Ecuavisa in Guayaquil suffers minor injuries.
2023-03-20

Sixty-eight inmates are killed and 25 others injured in a prison riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2021-11-13

Ecuador says it will pardon more than 2,000 inmates after 118 inmates were killed during a riot at a prison in Guayaquil on 28 September. A government official said that some prisoners will be prioritized and that the main goal is to address prison overcrowding.
2021-10-1

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Ecuador, near the town of Muisne. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami alert for coastal areas of Ecuador and Colombia. At least 42 people are reported dead with deaths reported in the cities of Manta, Guayaquil and Portoviejo.
2016-04-16