QUITO (Reuters) -Explosive devices reportedly went off on two bridges on routes along the Ecuadorean coast, the country’s infrastructure minister said on Wednesday, as violence ramps up a day after a car bomb outside a Guayaquil shopping mall left one person dead.
Minister Roberto Luque said on X that the explosive attacks had aimed to disrupt traffic.
“We are deployed at the sites, working on a damage assessment to determine the current state of these structures,” he said.
On Tuesday, a car exploded outside a shopping mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, killing one person and injuring several others. A second vehicle containing explosives was found nearby, but it did not detonate and was deactivated.
(Reporting by Alexandra Valencia, Writing by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez; Editing by Brendan O’Boyle and Sarah Morland)
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