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– Ecuador attack –
In an apparently unrelated attack in Ecuador, not far from the country’s border with Colombia, a car bomb destroyed the San Lorenzo police barracks around 1:30 am (0630 GMT).
President Lenin Moreno called it a “terrorist act linked to gangs of drug traffickers.”
The blast slightly wounded 28 people — both locals and police. Some 37 homes were destroyed, according to the Interior Ministry.
Moreno declared a state of emergency in the towns of Eloy Alfaro and San Lorenzo, home to some 56,000 people, “in order to boost security for citizens and the border.”
Ecuador is considered a transit country for cocaine produced in Colombia and sold in Europe and the United States. Since Ecuador lacks major drug crops, authorities there fight against gangs that store narcotics.
