Ecuadorian police have freed 49 individuals held by a felony group that pressured them to work in a mine, an official supply mentioned.
“Throughout an operation in opposition to organized crime, the police managed to rescue 49 individuals who had been kidnapped by the harmful Los Lobos gang within the province of Azuay,” the nation’s presidency mentioned on Platform X.
The Los Lobos (“The Wolves”) cartel is a gang concerned in drug trafficking and different felony actions in Ecuador.
In keeping with the presidency, weapons and explosives had been additionally seized. Images from the police operation, in a mountainous location within the Andes, present armed police and troopers getting into the mine tunnels to free the hostages. Colonel Jose Vargas, the pinnacle of the native police, mentioned they needed to “fend off an armed assault by a number of individuals”.
Among the many freed hostages are a baby and three ladies.
Human stays had been additionally discovered close to the mine, in the neighborhood of Camilo Ponce Enriques.
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