Eight s3vered human heads are found near a sign saying 'no stealing'

 Eight s3vered human heads have been found near to a sign which says 'stealing is forbidden' as gang war continues to ravage Ecuador. The gruesome discovery was made in the coastal province of Guayas on Saturday and is linked to a confrontation 'between criminal groups', Mail Online reports. Guayas is one of the main areas rocked by bloody disputes between drug trafficking groups which have turned the South American nation into the continent's most violent. The eight victims were killed in the neighbouring province of Manabi, where five human heads were found hanging from ropes on a tourist beach on Wednesday. There 'were several pamphlets' near the sacks containing the message 'stealing is prohibited', Guayas police commander Marcelo Castillo said.  The five heads, found last week, were left with a warning sign directed at alleged extortionists of fishermen in the small port of Puerto Lopez. Drug-trafficking networks with links to transnational cartels are active in the area and have used fishermen and their small boats for their illicit activities. A dispute for territory and control of drug-trafficking routes has triggered violent episodes across the Manabi province, where Puerto Lopez is located. Police on Saturday said they had carried out control and surveillance operations in Puerto Lopez amid an ongoing state of emergency enforced in nine of the Andean country's 24 provinces, including Manabi. The state of emergency seeks to contain the spiral of violence, especially in coastal areas, and restricts certain civil rights. Police controls in Puerto Lopez increased after a massacre left six people de@d two weeks ago. A second armed attack three days later left the same number of dead in Manta, also in the province of Manabi. The shooting formed part of a wider surge in violence across the town over the weekend, with at least nine people killed in separate incidents. The bloodshed comes amid a broader deterioration in security across Ecuador, where violence tied to drug trafficking routes and gang rivalries has surged in recent years.   The post Eight s3vered human heads are found near a sign saying 'no stealing' appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.