Ecuador legislative candidate says suffered light injury in shooting


  • World
  • Saturday, 12 Aug 2023

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean legislative candidate Estefany Puente, who is running for a seat in the province of Los Rios, said on Friday she was lightly injured in a shooting attack the day before.

The incident follows the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who was gunned down as he left a campaign event on Wednesday evening, less than two weeks before the election.

(Reporting by Aelxandra Valencia; Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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