Police say they captured one of the murderers of five tourists in Puerto López – 2024-04-03 14:06:03

The Police reported this Saturday of the arrest of a man, allegedly involved in the kidnapping of eleven people and the murder of five of them on Friday, in the coastal province of Manabílocated in western Ecuador.

In their account on the social network

He attached videos and photographs of the arrest about the case, which he is investigating the murder of five of the eleven kidnapped in the Ayampe area.

According to the Police, five minors who were also kidnapped are safe with their families.

The local press points out that All those kidnapped in a hotel – on the first of three days off for Easter – were relativesbut the Police have not made reference to it.

Noboa reacts

One of the kidnapped people who managed to escape alerted about the case.

The man reported that a group of people arrived at the hotel where they were, approximately 20 individuals, who had entered the room where they were staying and proceeded to take away their phones, documents and other belongings, according to the media. digital Firsts.

Then, they tied them up and took him, five adult relatives, and five minors to an unknown destination and, later, they shot the adults, he said.

“Any attack against an Ecuadorian is an attack on Ecuador,” The head of state wrote this Saturday, Daniel Noboa in your X social network account.

What happened in the provinces of Santa Elena and Manabí “reminds us that the battle continues. The National Police is deployed and, as a result, we have captured one of the Ayampe kidnappers, we will not rest until we find the others,” he noted.

State of internal war

“This,” he added, “is a sign that narcoterrorism and its allies are looking for spaces to scare us, but they will not succeed. “My solidarity with the families who have been victims of the violence of the terrorists who intend to destroy our country.”

Ecuador is in a state of emergency and in an “internal armed conflict” against criminal gangs, decreed last January by Noboa, at a time of a growing wave of violence. EFE