Ecuadorian police locates those responsible por the assassination of the presidential candidate
Ecuadorian Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated on Wednesday in Quito after being shot at when leaving a political rally. Local media report that the Ecuadorian police has already mounted an operation to locate those responsible for the incident. teleSUR
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00:00 Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated on Wednesday
00:05 in Quito after being shot at when leaving a political rally.
00:10 The presidential candidate for the Reconstruyen movement was assassinated around 6 p.m. local
00:15 time after the political event that took place in the Coliseum of the Anderson School in
00:20 the Ecuadorian capital.
00:22 Local media reported that the Ecuadorian police has already amounted an operation to locate
00:26 those responsible for the incident.
00:28 The event happens at a critical moment for security in Ecuador and a few days before
00:33 extraordinary elections.
00:34 Villavicencio had been a member of the National Assembly for the Alianza Unistida party since
00:40 2021, was president of the political control and oversight committees and had presented
00:46 in EU his presidential candidacy.
00:48 However, the responsible of Villavicencio's murder was assassinated when he was under
00:52 custody.
00:53 The investigation is ongoing.