A riot in the minimum security stage of the Cotopaxi prison left five dead and several injured. The event was recorded in the afternoon and night of this Tuesday, December 15.
To control people deprived of liberty (PPL), personnel from the Unit for the Maintenance of Order (UMO) collaborated in the operation in which, in addition, those possible involved in the mutiny were arrested.
The agents of the Criminalistics Unit and the Legal Medicine vehicle went to the jail to remove the corpses that will later be transferred to the morgue of the municipal cemetery for legal procedures.
In its Twitter account, the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (Snai) gave details of the operation.
In a statement, Snai indicated that the mutiny occurred “due to power disputes between criminal organizations related to the gang of” Mexicans. “
The director of the Cotopaxi N ° 1 Center for the Deprivation of Liberty, Patricio Limaico, stated that after regaining control of the prison, information on the events was collected, which determined that there were five deaths from attacks with artisanal knives and an injured prison security officer.
According to the authorities, the clashes took place around 5:00 p.m. and after the riot, a search was carried out in which the alleged perpetrators were identified and placed under the orders of the competent authority.
The entity reported that the visitors who were inside this deprivation of liberty center had to be evacuated.
It was clarified that despite the lack of personnel from the Penitentiary Security and Surveillance Corps to give an immediate response and mitigate these types of events, the Snai has as part of its institutional policy to pacify these situations in all the detention centers of the country .
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