People embrace during a protest in front of the prosecutor's office following the disappearance in Guayaquil of four children who were last seen running away from a military convoy, in Quito, Ecuador, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuadorian police on Tuesday found an undisclosed number of bodies in an area close to a military base, officials said, and were investigating whether the bodies could be of some of the four children who were last seen taken by men in military uniform earlier this month.
The case of the children, aged 11 to 15, who went missing on Dec. 8, has profoundly shaken Ecuador, with rights groups and the public demanding information about their whereabouts and asking that the case be investigated as a forced disappearance.
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