{"id":323230,"date":"2026-01-27T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323230"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:46:38","slug":"at-least-8-killed-in-4-armed-attacks-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323230","title":{"rendered":"At least 8 killed in 4 armed attacks in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>QUITO, Jan 27 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; At least eight people were killed in four armed attacks Sunday night in the cities of Manta and Montecristi in Ecuador&#8217;s coastal province of Manabi, local media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shootings occurred between 7:50 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. local time in several neighborhoods, according to reports citing police investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first attack took place in the Los Artesanos area of Montecristi, where a couple were shot dead while walking on the street. Minutes later, in Manta&#8217;s 12 de Octubre neighborhood, a man was killed while sitting outdoors. Police have detained a suspect and seized a 9-millimeter magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A third incident occurred in Bellavista, Manta, when an assailant entered a house and shot a man during a family celebration. Neighbors captured the attacker, who was injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadliest attack was reported at 10:50 p.m. in the Leonidas Proano parish of Montecristi, where gunmen fired from two vehicles at a group of people, killing four and wounding five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With these incidents, the Manta district, a major port and tourist area, has recorded 51 violent deaths in January 2026, according to official data. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUITO, Jan 27 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; At least eight people were killed in four armed attacks Sunday night in the cities of Manta and Montecristi in Ecuador&#8217;s coastal province of Manabi, local media reported. The shootings occurred between 7:50 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. local time in several neighborhoods, according to reports citing police investigations. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323231,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323230\/revisions\/323231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}