Videos posted on social media showed gunmen, most of them masked, opening fire as people play billiards in Santo Domingo, 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of Quito.
Ecuador is a point of departure for cocaine shipments to the United States and Europe, and a hub for criminal groups involved in extortion and contract killings -- some of them linked to cartels based in Mexico, Colombian or Albania.
Ecuador recorded more than 4,600 homicides in the first half of the year, a 47-percent increase from the same period of 2024, data from the Ecuadoran Observatory of Organized Crime shows.
In June, President Daniel Noboa's government captured the country's top gang leader, who was extradited the following month to the United States to face drug and arms trafficking charges - AFP
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