44 dead after prison gang fight

A CLASH between rival Ecuadorian gangs has killed 44 inmates, officials said, little more than a month after another prison riot resulted in 20 deaths.

Interior minister Patricio Carrillo said that one group of inmates left their cells to attack another inside the Bellavista lockup in Santo Domingo, some 45 miles west of Quito, the capital. He said: “It’s evident that those who lost their lives were executed by knives.”