AFP via Getty ImagesEcuador police said they had arrested four people in connection with an attack by armed men in a rooster fighting ring in which 12 people died.
Friday, weapons and replicas of police and army uniforms were seized during the police raids in the northwest province of Manabí – one day after the attack in the rural community of Valence.
Images of the partial attack on social networks have shown that armed men entering the ring and opening fire, while terrified spectators plunged for covers.
Relationships in the local media suggested that the attackers in false military equipment were members of a criminal gang whose rivals were in rooster combat.
A criminal investigation was launched by the provincial authorities.
It is believed that up to 20 criminal gangs operate in the country of Latin America, in the running for control over the main drugs.
The Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said that around 70% of world cocaine now circulates in the ports of the equator before being shipped to the United States and Europe.
The drug is introduced as a contraband in equator of neighboring Colombia and Peru – the two world’s largest producers in cocaine.
In January, 781 murders, making it the deadliest month of recent years. Many of them were linked to the illegal drug trade.
