Inmates who staged a riot that left at least 68 dead at a prison in Ecuador are attacking each other again, a spokesman for the president said Saturday evening.
"The government must report that new incidents are now occurring" in the prison in Guayaquil, spokesman Carlos Jijon said.
Until now authorities had said police regained control of the prison after hours of fighting among inmates with guns, explosives, and machetes.
He said prisoners from two sections of the penitentiary were attacking each other in a new surge of violence.
These are different blocks from the one that saw most of the fighting in the riot that began Friday night, Jijon said.
President Guillermo Lasso is overseeing a crisis committee and has appealed to civil society groups to try to establish contact with prisoners and end the bloodshed, Jijon said.