2023-08-11 03:44:42
Estefany Puente, a candidate for the National Assembly, was grazed by a bullet in her left arm when two unknown individuals intercepted her vehicle and shot into the windshield.
A candidate for legislator of Ecuador was shot this Thursday when she was driving her car and was unharmed, a day after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in an attack in Quito, the local press reported.
The victim of the attack was stephanie bridgecandidate to integrate the National Assembly (AN, parliament) in the elections on the 20th of this month, and the incident occurred this afternoon in Quevedo, in the central province of Los Ríos.
Puente was in her vehicle accompanied by her father and a collaborator, when he was intercepted by two unknown persons who several shots were fired on the windshields, in the direction of Puente, and escaped.
One of the bullets grazed the candidate’s left arm, according to local newspapers The universe y First fruits.
Puente is a candidate for the AN for a local coalition for which she ran for a councilor’s seat in the last elections.
The event occurred in the midst of the commotion caused by the murder of Villavicencio, who was one of the eight candidates for president for the elections on Sunday the 20th, in which the person who will complete the term of the current head of state, Guillermo Lasso, will be chosen. .
The Police investigate the fact to find out the reasons for the attack and also reviewed the security cameras to obtain records of what happened.
This Wednesday, after a political meeting in Quito, the candidate for president Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated with three shots to the head by a group of Colombians who had already been detained by the authorities.
Ecuador will elect a new president on August 20.
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