Ecuador: 68 inmates killed and 25 injured in latest prison massacre

Deaths at Litoral penitentiary part of wave of prison violence that has claimed more than 280 lives

At least 68 prisoners have been killed and 25 injured in a jail in the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador after bloodletting between rival gangs broke out on Friday night, the attorney general's office said on Saturday.

The latest massacre occurred in the Litoral penitentiary, the same jail where at least 119 inmates lost their lives a little more than a month before in the country's deadliest ever prison riot.