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Ecuador confirms incinerated bodies belong to missing ‘Guayaquil Four’ boys

Ecuador confirms incinerated bodies belong to missing ‘Guayaquil Four’ boys

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Sixteen air force personnel who apprehended boys are being held in custody as inquiry into deaths continuesEcuador’s attorney general’s office has confirmed that incinerated bodies found on Christmas Eve belong to the four children missing since early December, in a case posing a severe challenge to President Daniel Noboa’s “war on drugs”.The four boys – all black, aged between 11 and 15, and residents of Las Malvinas, a poor area in the country’s largest city, Guayaquil – were returning from a football game on 8 December when they were apprehended by 16 air force soldiers. Continue reading…

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/31/ecuador-confirms-incinerated-bodies-belong-to-missing-guayaquil-four-boys

Author : Tiago Rogero South America correspondent

Publish date : 2024-12-31 22:07:00

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