Suspected gang attack in Ecuador kills seven | News

Ecuador, Sept 14, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A suspected gang attack on a pool hall in Ecuador overnight left seven dead and four wounded, police said Saturday. 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. "Presumably this violent incident stems from a territorial dispute between organized crime groups and organized armed groups," police Colonel Beatriz Benavides said. 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. The late Friday attack was...