A suspected gang attack on a pool hall in Ecuador overnight left seven dead and four wounded, police said Saturday. It marked the second such attack in less than a month in the same city during a wave of violence in the country.

Videos posted on social media showed gunmen, most of them masked, opening fire as people played billiards in the city of Santo Domingo, about 100 miles west of Quito.

"Presumably this violent incident stems from a territorial dispute between organized crime groups and organized armed groups," police Colonel Beatriz Benavides said.

Ecuador is a point of departure for cocaine shipments to the United States and Europe, and a hub for criminal groups involved in extortion and contract killings — some of them linked to cartels based in Mexico, Colombia or Albania.

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