Police found 800 cartridge cases at the scene, where gunmen had arrived in two pickup trucks and opened fire
Eight people have been killed and two others wounded when a group of gunmen unleashed a barrage of gunfire on a crowd outside a nightclub in a town in south-western Ecuador.
Law enforcement arrived on the scene following an emergency call alerting them to a shooting, and found “several people wounded and seven bodies”, said Javier Chango, the police colonel, at a press conference on Sunday, adding that an eighth person died in the hospital.
The gunmen arrived in two pickup trucks and opened fire on people drinking outside the nightclub at 1.15am local time in Santa Lucía, which has a population of 38,000, in the Guayas province.
Among the dead was the nightclub owner, Jorge Urquizo, who was the brother of Santa Lucía’s mayor.
