{"id":15144,"date":"2025-12-30T16:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=15144"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:20:13","slug":"at-least-six-people-including-two-year-old-shot-dead-after-gunmen-open-fire-on-tourist-beach-in-horror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=15144","title":{"rendered":"At least six people including two-year-old shot dead after gunmen open fire on tourist beach in horror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"egloos-content\">\n<p>Six people, including a two-year-old child, were killed in a terrifying shooting incident today at a world-famous tourist hotspot.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly arose in Puerto Lopez, which is a famous beach resort located in southwestern Ecuador. Several men, armed with automatic weapons, opened fire on a group of people inside the city.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.egloos.ai\/content\/images\/body\/20251230\/20251230145527_fishing-boats-filling-bay-low-1048315826.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The shooters reportedly started their assault at 9 am local time, as confirmed by the police. A girl aged nearly two was among the victims, the regional police commander confirmed to the press. He mentioned how the attack killed six and left three more seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>He also shared how the attackers fled the scene after carrying out the cowardly shooting. Police are now searching for the suspects, with initial investigations hinting at internal disputes between gangs as the main ones to blame for this tragedy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.egloos.ai\/content\/images\/body\/20251230\/20251230145540_minister-reimberg-visit-puerto-l-1048316004.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"PC_egloos_da_article_body02\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">This area in Ecuador\u2019s Manabi province is famous for whale watching. Local reports suggested that the attack is part of a wave of violence that grew this weekend and saw a total of nine people killed in Puerto Lopez.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"PC_egloos_da_article_body03\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody_body-info__yFPGQ\">\n<div class=\"ArticleBody_body-actions__pUmXJ\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people, including a two-year-old child, were killed in a terrifying shooting incident today at a world-famous tourist hotspot. The incident reportedly arose in Puerto Lopez, which is a famous beach resort located in southwestern Ecuador. Several men, armed with automatic weapons, opened fire on a group of people inside the city. The shooters reportedly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=15144\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;At least six people including two-year-old shot dead after gunmen open fire on tourist beach in horror attack&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15146,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15144\/revisions\/15146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}