Two car explosions targeted at Ecuadorean prisons agency SNAI may have been set off in response to government security operations at prisons this week, President Guillermo Lasso and a top security official said on Thursday.
The explosions overnight in the capital - one at a building formerly used by SNAI and another still in use by the agency - caused some exterior damage to the second building and led to 10 arrests. There were no injuries.
Lasso said on X, the social media network previously known as Twitter, that operations in Cotopaxi prison on Wednesday were meant to confiscate arms, munitions and explosives. SNAI did not comment. The bloodshed was thrown into sharp relief by the early August assassination of anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
Most of those detained have criminal records, Interior Minister Juan Zapata told journalists on Thursday afternoon, adding that three were caught for a robbery two weeks ago but subsequently released by a judge.
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