The bridge explosions occur just hours after a car bomb went off outside a shopping mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city.

Explosions have rocked different parts of Ecuador, with officials accusing a local criminal gang and Colombian ex-FARC dissidents of targeting two bridges in retaliation for a major military operation against illegal miners.

It is the latest wave of violence to have engulfed the South American nation in recent years.

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