US EditionGunmen Attack Santa Lucía Nightclub, Killing Eight
GUAYAS PROVINCE, ECUADOR, AUG 11 – The shooting is linked to gang disputes amid a 47% rise in homicides this year, with authorities maintaining a state of emergency in Guayas province to curb violence.
- In Santa Lucía, gunmen opened fire at a nightclub on Sunday, killing eight and injuring three in Ecuador’s Guayas Province.
- Authorities attribute the surge in violence to disputes among organised crime groups linked to transnational drug cartels, and Guayas is under a two-month state of emergency declared by President Daniel Noboa.
- Authorities said heavily armed suspects arrived on motorcycles and in two vehicles before fleeing along an `unknown route`, police found 800 cartridge cases at the scene.
- Jorge Urquizo, nightclub owner, was among the dead, and Santa Lucía’s mayor’s office expressed condolences on Sunday.
- More than 4,600 people have been killed so far this year in Ecuador, with 4,619 homicides in the first half of 2025, a 47 per cent increase.
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At least eight people have been killed in western Ecuador by a shooting on Sunday at the exit of a discotheque in the city of Saint Lucia, including the brother of the mayor of the town, reports Europa Press. The incident has occurred around 01.00 local time, when a group of armed men got out of two vehicles and shot at a group of people who were drinking at the door of the establishment.
Armed attack leaves 8 dead in Ecuador
An armed attack outside a nightclub in Santa Lucía on Sunday morning, a town in Ecuador's Guayas province, left eight people (seven men and one woman) dead and several others injured. The victims included nightclub owner Jorge Urquizo, the brother of the town's mayor, Ubaldo Urquizo.
8 killed and 3 injured in mass shooting at a nightclub in Ecuador
The shooting took place in the rural area of Santa Lucía in the coastal province of Guayas, considered one of the country's most dangerous. Seven of the victims, who were between 20 and 40 years old, died at the club and the eighth one at a hospital.
Eight killed, 2 injured in mass shooting outside nightclub in Ecuador
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