Ecuadorian Interior Minister Juan Zapata Silva said on Wednesday that police have detained three suspects allegedly involved in an armed attack on a major seaport in the city of Esmeraldas in northwestern Ecuador

Nine people have been killed, and four more have been injured in an attack by armed criminals on a major seaport in the city of Esmeraldas in northwestern Ecuador, the Ecuadorian Interior Ministry said on Tuesday

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso declared on Saturday a state of emergency in three of the country's provinces amid rising crime