Massacre in Ecuador claims the lives of seven individuals, including two minors

Seven people, including two minors, were killed in an armed attack in a town near Guayaquil, Ecuador. The police reported that they recovered seven male citizens without vital signs, all with multiple gunshot wounds in Nobol, in the province of Guayas. Two of the bodies were identified as minors and two had criminal records.

The massacre took place on Friday night, and it took authorities several hours to locate all the bodies as they were spread out in different parts of the area. According to local media citing police sources, the motive for the massacre appears to have been revenge. Nobol is located about 42 kilometers from Guayaquil, a city known for high crime rates and its involvement with drug trafficking cartels.

Massacres have become more common in Ecuador, a country used as a transit point for drug traffickers due to its Pacific ports. In a separate incident at the end of March, eight people were shot dead in Guayaquil, including five tourists who had been kidnapped on a beach. President Daniel Noboa declared the nation to be in internal armed conflict in January following a violent attack by criminal gangs that resulted in the deaths of twenty people.