Gunmen in Ecuador opened fire in a restaurant in a beach town popular with tourists, killing at least six people and wounding six more, prosecutors said Sunday.
The attack happened Saturday night in a busy nightlife area of the town of Montanita on the Pacific coast, the prosecutors' office said on Twitter.Located between Colombia and Peru, the world's top producers of cocaine, Ecuador is weathering the biggest surge in crime in its recent history.A woman who was near the restaurant at the time of the latest shooting described hearing gunshots.
Conservative President Guillermo Lasso has tried to counter the crime wave by declaring a state of emergency in the hardest-hit provinces, such as Santa Elena, which includes Montanita.The government also started letting people carry guns for self-defense.In mid-April a group comprising dozens of attackers opened fire at the fishing port in the town of Esmeraldas, killing nine people in what the government called a drug turf war.
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