Dozens of guards and seven police officers, who were held as hostages by inmates for more than a day, have been released, according to authorities in Ecuador.
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Four car bombs and three explosive devices went off across the country in less than 48 hours. The latest explosion with dynamite happened early Friday on a bridge linking two cities in the coastal province of El Oro,Hours earlier, a domestic gas tank with wads of dynamite attached exploded under a different bridge in Napo province of Napo, located within Ecuador's portion of the Amazon rainforest.
Security analyst Daniel Pontón said the chain of events, which took place three weeks after the slaying of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was a"systematic and clearly planned" attack that had shown the state was ineffective in preventing violence. "The issue is that we are seeing an escalation of the problem, and given the level of incompetence of the state, later we can expect attacks against the population," Pontón said."It is a predictable scenario that would be terrible."
Another vehicle in Quito exploded Thursday, this one outside the corrections system’s current offices. An explosive device also went off in Cuenca, located in southern Ecuador’s Andes mountains. A judge ordered six people suspected of involvement in the capital blasts kept in custody while an investigation continued.
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