Ecuador judge orders troops detained after children’s bodies found

厄瓜多尔法官在发现儿童尸体后下令拘留部队

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2025-01-01

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A judge in Ecuador orders the detention of sixteen military personnel over the disappearance of four boys whose badly burned bodies have been found outside an air force base.
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  • You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and this edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday, 1st January 2025.

  • A judge in Ecuador orders the detention of 16 military personnel

  • after the bodies of four missing boys were found outside an air force base.

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  • The disappearance of four young boys in Ecuador in early December sparked outrage

  • in the Latin American nation with allegations the military was involved.

  • President Daniel Noboa, who's running for re election in the new year,

  • promised answers and said there would be no cover up.

  • Now the authorities have confirmed

  • that four badly burnt bodies found near an Air Force base on Christmas Eve are those of the missing boys

  • and ordered 16 Air Force personnel to be detained.

  • Our correspondent Francis Reed has been looking into this for us.