QUITO, Ecuador — A shooting at a nightclub in Ecuador on Sunday killed eight people and injured three others in the latest violent incident to hit the spiraling South American country, authorities said.

The shooting took place in the rural area of Santa Lucía in the coastal province of Guayas, considered one of the country’s most dangerous. Seven of the victims, who were between 20 and 40 years old, died at the club and the eighth one at a hospital, according to a police statement.

Authorities said the heavily armed suspects arrived on motorcycles and in two vehicles.

It wasn’t immediately known what prompted the shooting, which came two days after gunmen attacked a boat near El Oro province along the country’s southwest coast. Four people were killed in that incident and several othe

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