{"id":483813,"date":"2025-09-22T10:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/at-least-fourteen-deaths-leave-a-confrontation-in-a-prison-in-southern-ecuador\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:41:05","slug":"at-least-fourteen-deaths-leave-a-confrontation-in-a-prison-in-southern-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/at-least-fourteen-deaths-leave-a-confrontation-in-a-prison-in-southern-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"At least fourteen deaths leave a confrontation in a prison in southern Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"At least 12 people were killed early this Monday at the Machala prison in Ecuador. The events unfolded around 2:00 a.m., when a group of inmates managed to get out of their cells.\n\nThe inmates, identified as members of the criminal organization Los Lobos Box, <strong>murdered a prison guide, injured two police officers <\/strong>and kidnapped six other agents.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/nuevo-ataque\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"517701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new armed attack leaves seven dead in Ecuador<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThen they moved to another pavilion, where members of the rival gang Los Lobos are held. Once there, the gang members <strong>executed more than a dozen prisoners<\/strong> and injured a similar number.\n\nDuring the attacks, three explosive devices were detonated and a group of inmates escaped, although the National Police reported that they had managed to recapture 13 of them, according to reports from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecuavisa.com\/noticias\/seguridad\/masacre-carcel-machala-lobos-box-JF10150832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ecuavisa<\/a>.\n\nFollowing the altercations, around 200 agents, including police and military, are guarding the prison complex during the morning of this Monday.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ULTIMAHORA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ULTIMAHORA<\/a> <br>Disturbios,balacera y explosi\u00f3n en la c\u00e1rcel de Machala dej\u00f3 varios reos fallecidos, seg\u00fan un  reporte preliminar.<br>Habr\u00eda al menos 12 reclusos y un gu\u00eda penitenciario muertos.<br>Otros reos fueron recapturados.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Ecuador?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ecuador<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fabriciovelav?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@fabriciovelav<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ParoNacionalEcuador?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ParoNacionalEcuador<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/URGENTE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#URGENTE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nELXSJTAP3\">pic.twitter.com\/nELXSJTAP3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; EDISON MENDOZA (@FLACOMENDOZA1) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FLACOMENDOZA1\/status\/1970099501294903580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 people were killed early this Monday at the Machala prison in Ecuador. The events unfolded around 2:00 a.m., when a group of inmates managed to get out of their cells. The inmates, identified as members of the criminal organization Los Lobos Box, murdered a prison guide, injured two police officers and kidnapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":483815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[14862],"class_list":["post-483813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-ecuador"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21Rr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-09-22-103418.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-09-22-103418.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}