AT least 12 inmates were killed in clashes that broke out in a prison in the Ecuadoran port of Guayaquil, the prosecutor’s office said yesterday, the latest deadly violence to rock the city’s penitentiary system.
The dozen inmate deaths occurred after a bloody confrontation erupted on Friday – part of a spate of brutality that began when six detainees were found hanged in the same prison and three female guards were killed earlier in the week.