14 civilians killed in Ecuador attacks: police

Police said at least 14 civilians were killed Sunday in two attacks in a coastal area of Ecuador, where drug trafficking gangs have been engaged in a violent struggle for control.

"We have approximately 12 people dead and three wounded," Major Oscar Valencia, police chief of the southwestern town of El Empalme, told reporters, adding the attackers fired at another group near the site of the initial massacre, killing two more people.