Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte García, has been shot dead. The
Ecuador’s youngest mayor, 27-year-old Brigitte García, was found shot dead Sunday morning, the country’s national police said. In a statement posted on X, police said that García, the mayor of San Vicente, a small coastal city, was in what is believed to be a rental car along with her communications director, Jairo Loor, who was also killed from a gunshot wound. Preliminary investigations suggest the shots were fired from inside the car, police said. Further investigations are underway, police...
QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and a staffer were found shot dead in a car early on Sunday, said police in the South American country, which is in the grips of a wave of violence that authorities blame on drug traffickingNational police said they were investigating the deaths of Garcia, the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente, and Jairo Loor, her communications director, after the discovery of their bodies in the province of Manabi. Both had suffered gunshot wounds,...
The youngest mayor in Ecuador's history was found shot dead next to her staffer in a car on the side of a road in the South American country on Sunday morning, according to police. Reuters reported that the mayor of San Vicente, Ecuador, 27-year-old Brigitte Garcia, and her communications director, Jairo Loor, were found shot to death in the province of Manabi. National police said they are investigating the deaths, adding that it appeared the gunfire came from inside the car. The vehicle Garcia...
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Ecuador's youngest mayor was found shot to death Sunday, police said, as the South American country approaches its third month of a state of emergency decreed by the government to crack down on soaring gang violence.Brigitte Garcia, the 27-year-old mayor of coastal San Vicente, was found dead along with her adviser, the municipality's communications director, Jairo Loor.During the early hours of the morning "two people were identified inside a vehicle without vital signs, with gunshot wounds,"...
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