Ecuador: the director of a prison in Quito is assassinated

The Ecuadorian authorities have confirmed this Thursday the death of the director of the El Inca prison, Santiago Loza Moscoso, victim of “a deadly attack” in the country’s capital, Quito.

This has been confirmed by the National Comprehensive Care Service for Adults Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), which has issued a statement in which it “repudiates” what happened and has conveyed its condolences to Loza Moscoso’s colleagues and relatives.

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Sources from the National Directorate of Violent Deaths have confirmed that the perpetrators of the attack were traveling on a motorcycle when one of them opened fire on the car in which Loza Moscoso was traveling, who died inside the vehicle.

The first information suggests that the director of the El Inca prison was traveling to his workplace when he was attacked, as reported by the Ecuadorian newspaper ‘El Comercio’.

Ecuador is the scene of notorious insecurity in the prison system, which has already left more than a dozen massacres in the last two years with more than 400 deaths. Clashes between gangs, which fight for control of drug trafficking, are one of the reasons for this situation.

With information from La Gaceta