Ecuador prison riots death toll rise to 27

President Guillermo Lasso issues order ‘to mobilise all necessary human and economic resources’ to re-establish order after deadly incident.

Ecuador has raised to 27 the number of inmates killed in riots in two jails this week that forced the government to declare a state of emergency. President Guillermo Lasso had issued the order “to mobilise all necessary human and economic resources to re-establish order” in Ecuador’s prisons after violence erupted on Wednesday at jails in Guayas, in southwestern Ecuador, and Cotopaxi, in the centre of the country. The SNAI prisons management body posted on social media on Friday that “19 inmates are reported dead, one of them by hanging” in the Cotopaxi prison.