Eighteen police officers are "
missing
" after the attack on Tuesday June 21 of a police station in a town in eastern Ecuador, Interior Minister Patricio Carillo announced on Wednesday.
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The mob attacked and set fire to a police station in the town of Puyo, in the Amazon province of Pastaza, "
six police officers were seriously injured, three are held hostage (by an indigenous community) and 18 police officers are missing
", declared Patricio Carillo during a press conference in Quito.