Maria Daniela Icaza's death comes just days after the head of another prison was killed in Ecuador.
The director of Ecuador's biggest prison was killed in an armed attack on Thursday, the second such killing in under two weeks in the Latin American country, the SNAI prison agency said.Maria Daniela Icaza, director of the infamous Litoral penitentiary in the port city Guayaquil died of injuries sustained 'following an armed attack on the road' leading to the nearby town of Daule, the agency said.
Icaza's death comes nine days after the head of a prison in the Amazonian province of Sucumbios, Alex Guevara, was killed, also in an armed attack while travelling by car.Two other workers who were with him were wounded after unknown assailants raked his vehicle with gunfire.And two weeks ago, two prison officers in Guayaquil were murdered on their way to work.
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