QUITO, Ecuador — Two explosions rocked different parts of Ecuador on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after a vehicle exploded in a port city in the South American country and left one person dead.

Explosives were placed on bridges “to block traffic,” Transportation Minister Roberto Luque wrote on X, describing the acts as “terrorism.” No casualties have been reported, though roads leading to the affected areas remain closed.

Interior Minister John Reimberg accused “Los Lobos,” one of Ecuador’s largest criminal gangs, which is designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a now-defunct Colombian guerrilla movement with ties to the gang, of being behind the blasts.

Reimberg said the attacks came after

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