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At least 31 inmates died after riots erupted at a prison in Machala, southwest Ecuador.

SNAI said most victims died from asphyxiation and hanging during the violence.

The unrest follows a series of deadly gang-related prison clashes across Ecuador.

A day of violent rioting at a prison in southwest Ecuador on Sunday, November 9, 2025 caused the deaths of at least 31 inmates, the country’s prisons agency said.

According to Reuters, twenty-seven prisoners in the port town of Machala, south of Guayaquil, died from asphyxiation and “immediate death by hanging,” the SNAI prisons agency said in a statement on X. The statement did not give further details about how the prisoners died.

Earlier on Sunday, SNAI said four prisoners died in a separate outbreak at the same

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