It happened on the Ventanas-Las Naves road in the province of Los Ríos. The incident occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, March 31, 2022.
BABAHOYO. What seemed to be a normal weekend and without major complications, became a horror movie for a family from the Las Naves canton, jurisdiction of the province of Bolívar.
His trip was interrupted by two all-terrain vehicles from which several armed men got out, taking five people hostage and mobilizing them up to two different cars.
Terror gripped the family who did not know what they were facing? since The thugs threatened them with death and they immediately set out on their journey to the city of Guayaquil.
The plan of the antisocials collapsed when upon reaching the entrance to the Puebloviejo canton, on the E-25, they encountered a group of policemen who were carrying out a routine patrol.
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Prior to the arrival of the suspects, the uniformed officers signaled the driver to stop in order to check the vehicle’s documentation, but the antisocials decided to ignore it and speed up the march, pretending to run away.
This caused a chase. police that had its end in the roundabout La Chorrera in Babahoyo where the ‘rogues’ had no other option but to get out of the car and surrender.
This fact was captured by the cameras of the cell phones of the citizens who were traveling on the state highway at that time.
The pain doesn’t end
The chief of the Police in Puebloviejo, Darwin Guevara Argüello, explained that two subjects were apprehended and part of the kidnapping victims rescued; however, the driver and main head of the family was taken by another group of thugs to an unknown point.
“It was not until 03:00 today, April 1, that the special units of the Anti-kidnapping Unit-Unase and other investigative teams managed to rescue the man in the Los Vergeles sector of the city of Guayaquil,” the officer explained.
Until now It has not been possible to determine the causes of the kidnapping, but extortion was ruled out because they would not have been asking for money, this according to the information handled by the Police. (MZA)
CLAVES La familia iba a finca ubicada en el cantón Las Naves-Bolívar. El secuestro ocurrió a la altura del cantón Ventanas-Los Ríos. El primer grupo de rescatado fue en Babahoyo-Los Ríos Al padre de la familia secuestrada lo rescataron en Guayaquil-Guayas. Hay dos personas de nacionalidad colombiana aprehendidas, uno de ellos menor de edad. No se encontraron armas de fuego.
