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(CNN)Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso has called a "crisis cabinet" aft yet different outbreak of brutal situation violence near astatine slightest 68 radical dormant connected Saturday, according to connection from the president's office.
The determination came aft the Ecuadorian prosecutor's bureau asked the authorities to instrumentality "urgent measures" to code the situation, according to a station connected the agency's authoritative Twitter account.
Prosecutors said astatine slightest 68 prisoners were killed and different 25 wounded during Saturday's clashes astatine the Litoral Penitentiary, 1 of Ecuador's largest prisons successful the coastal metropolis of Guayaquil.
Hundreds of prisoners person died successful large-scale riots and pack unit successful Ecuadorian prisons implicit the past year. The aforesaid facility, the Litoral Penitentiary, saw 118 radical killed successful September during clashes that progressive automatic weapons and adjacent grenades.
So far, 34 bodies person been identified since the Saturday bloodshed. They volition beryllium delivered to families successful the pursuing hours.
"The Human Rights Secretariat volition present the coffins to the families successful the adjacent fewer hours portion criminology continues to enactment connected the recognition of the different deceased," the Ecuadorian authorities said successful a statement.
The authorities is besides offering intelligence assistance for victims' families, the connection added.
Ecuadorian constabulary began activating information protocols Friday nighttime aft reports of gunshots and imaginable confrontations betwixt inmates astatine the prison, according to Guayas Governor Pablo Arosemena successful an announcement posted to the authoritative Facebook leafage of the Guayas Province government.
The deadly clashes look to beryllium an lawsuit of pack violence, according to the governor, who said inmates "not lone utilized weapons and detonations, but they tried to suffocate [other prisoners], burned mattresses, and more."
Ecuador's situation strategy has been nether a authorities of exigency since September's deadly clashes. More than 300 inmates person been killed successful situation unit this year, according to figures from Ecuador's situation work SNAI.
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