{"id":16153,"date":"2026-09-09T01:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/?p=16153"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:57:43","slug":"prison-riot-leaves-31-dead-with-27-hanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/?p=16153","title":{"rendered":"Prison riot leaves 31 dead, with 27 HANGED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day of violent armed rioting at a prison in southwest Ecuador on Sunday led to the deaths of at least 31 inmates, the country\u2019s prisons agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven prisoners in port town Machala died due to asphyxiation and \u2018immediate death by hanging,\u2019 according to a statement shared on X by the SNAI prisons agency. There were no other details about how the prisoners died.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they were still working to \u2018fully clarify the facts,\u2019 and forensic medical personnel were on site to verify information.<br \/>\nEarlier Sunday, SNAI reported that four people had been killed due to the deadly rioting, which was later brought under control by tactical police.<\/p>\n<p>The incident broke out around 3:00am (0800 GMT) at the prison, where local residents recalled hearing gunfire, explosions, and cries for help coming from inside the prison\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day of violent armed rioting at a prison in southwest Ecuador on Sunday led to the deaths of at least 31 inmates, the country\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16155,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16153\/revisions\/16155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralscontent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}