{"id":486789,"date":"2025-10-14T21:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/at-least-one-dead-and-two-injured-after-a-vehicle-explosion-in-ecuador\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:24:15","slug":"at-least-one-dead-and-two-injured-after-a-vehicle-explosion-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/at-least-one-dead-and-two-injured-after-a-vehicle-explosion-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"At least one dead and two injured after a vehicle explosion in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Guayaquil (Ecuador).<\/strong>&#8211; One person died and two others were injured this Tuesday after the explosion of a vehicle outside a shopping center, located in the financial center of <strong>Guayaquil,<\/strong> the most populous city in Ecuador, as confirmed by the <strong>Fire Department.<\/strong>\n\nThe incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. local time (11:30 p.m. GMT), and in videos that have gone viral on social media, it can be observed how a truck explodes seconds after it begins to catch fire.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/descarga-1.jpg\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"545326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amnesty International warns of a &#8220;rise in authoritarian practices&#8221; in Ecuador<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nColonel Mart\u00edn Cucal\u00f3n, head of the Guayaquil Fire Department, indicated that the deceased person was a taxi driver and that the injured were sent to a nearby hospital, while the Police evacuated all the buildings in the area.\n\nThis is the second vehicle to explode in Guayaquil in less than a month. On September 26th, another car was detonated outside the Regional Prison of Guayaquil, although no injuries or deaths were reported on that occasion.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guayaquil (Ecuador).&#8211; One person died and two others were injured this Tuesday after the explosion of a vehicle outside a shopping center, located in the financial center of Guayaquil, the most populous city in Ecuador, as confirmed by the Fire Department. The incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. local time (11:30 p.m. GMT), and in videos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486790,"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-486789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-ecuador"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22Dr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/descarga-3.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/descarga-3.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486789","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}