QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A shooting by a criminal gang at a pool hall in northern Ecuador killed at least seven people and four others wounded, police said on Saturday.

It was the second such attack in less than a month in the same city during a wave of violence in the Andean country.

The shooting occurred late Friday in the city of Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, located 130 kilometers (80 miles) west of the capital, Quito, according to the local police commander, Col. Olga Benavides, who attributed the attack to a “territorial dispute” between criminal gangs.

On Aug. 17, seven people were killed during a similar attack that also occurred at a pool hall in the same city.

One of those killed and two of the wounded in Friday's shooting had criminal records for drug trafficking, criminal as

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