Ecuador Maximum Security Prison Suffers Repeat Drone Attack
- Blast damages La Roca penitentiary’s roof in Guayaquil
- No structural damage to La Roca and prisoners to remain there
The damaged roof of La Roca maximum security prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on September 5.
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Police detonated an aerial drone carrying explosives on the roof of a prison in Ecuador holding high-profile inmates in a repeat of an attack in September 2023.
The police used 3 pounds of explosives to blow up the drone carrying 40 pounds of explosives as “a lesser evil” without inflicting structural damage on the roof, said General Victor Hugo Zárate, head of the national police, in an afternoon press conference in Quito.