QUITO: Ecuadoran police said Wednesday they found eight bodies in plastic bags in a southwestern narco-trafficking hotspot, where eight people went missing on Sunday.
“It has been confirmed that there are eight bodies” found on the outskirts of the town of Babahoyo, Colonel Galo Munoz, the area´s police chief, told reporters.
The discovery comes in the midst of a US-backed military crackdown on the organized crime gangs that have transformed Ecuador from one of South America´s safest countries into one of its deadliest.
Eight people, some of whom were related, disappeared on Sunday while traveling from Daule to Milagro, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Babahoyo.
