The attorney general’s office announced the findings on Tuesday after the boys’ disappearance spurred nationwide outrage, as well as questions about the involvement of Ecuador’s military. transformed life in Ecuador
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“The results of the forensic genetic tests confirm that the four bodies found in Taura correspond to the three teenagers and a child who disappeared after a military operation on December 8,” the office said in a social media post.
The families of the four missing boys — aged 11 to 15 — said they had gone outside in the coastal city of Guayaquil to play football when they disappeared.
Surveillance footage appeared to show two of the four boys being taken away by soldiers in a pick-up truck.
