![]() ![]() Others show his face, arm, and leg, and in one he is wearing his security guard’s uniform. They show her brother’s corpse, with machete wounds on his body, lying on the floor. “I had seen the news about the killings, but I never imagined that he was among the dead,” she says, reaching for some photos in her purse. She found out what happened from a friend who had a relative in the same cellblock - number nine - where her brother was being held. Only 11 bodies removed from the penitentiary have been identified, among them Patricia’s brother. A tattoo, a birthmark, or some vestige of remaining clothing can provide clues but the identification process of the human remains, carried out via genetic analysis, will take more time. Many of them are severed or burned, making identification difficult. ![]() No state institution is responsible for what happened and they deliver information in dribs and drabs, leaving the families to plead to find out where the bodies of their loved ones are. “I’m waiting for the residents in the neighborhood to help us so we can take him out and take him home,” says the 58-year-old woman.Īfter the massacre, the penitentiary and the morgue have become postcards of pain. She has not been able to raise the money to pay for a coffin to remove the body of her brother, one of the prisoners who was killed in a massacre on July 25. This is Patricia’s fourth day outside the Litoral Penitentiary, the most dangerous prison in Ecuador. The Armed Forces of Ecuador take control of the Litoral Penitentiary on July 25 in Guayaquil. ![]()
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