The heads were suspended between two wooden poles and tied to a length of green rope on a beach in the Pacific resort of Puerto Lopez.

Images on social media showed five heads tied with ropes on two wooden posts at a popular whale watching destination in Ecuador's southwest.

Ecuador gang violence escalates as five severed heads discovered on tourist beach in Puerto Lopez, highlighting country's record homicide rate amid military crackdown.

FIVE severed human heads have been found on a popular tourist beach in Ecuador. Police discovered the heads hanging from ropes fixed to wooden poles in the latest horror display of gang violence ...

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