Videos on social media purportedly from the campaign event showed people taking cover and screaming as gunfire sounded. Read more at straitstimes.com.
QUITO - Ecuadorean presidential candidate and former lawmaker Fernando Villavicencio was killed on Wednesday, President Guillermo Lasso said, vowing the murder will not go unpunished.
“For his memory and his fight, I assure you that this crime will not remain unpunished,” Mr Lasso said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “Organised crime have gone very far, but all the weight of the law will fall on them.”Videos on social media purportedly from the campaign event showed people taking cover and screaming as gunfire sounded.
Mr Villavicencio, from the Andean province of Chimborazo, was a former union member at state oil company Petroecuador and later a journalist who denounced alleged millions in oil contract losses.
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