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Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.

February 2021 Ecuadorian prison riots

Massacre in Ecuadorian prisons in February 2021

On 23 February 2021, 79 inmates were killed and several others were injured in riots that took place simultaneously in four Ecuadorian prisons. Authorities have cited gang rivalry in an overcrowded prison system as the cause. The violence happened in prisons located in the…
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Ecuador

Country in South America

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contains the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific,…
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February 23

Day of the year

February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 311 days remain until the end of the year.
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