ECUADOR.- a candidate to deputy of Ecuador was shot while traveling in her car through the city of Quevedo, in the central province of Los Ríos.
This is Estefany Puente, who was in a car with her father, the event occurred hours after the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito.
Estefany’s vehicle was intercepted around noon by two unknown persons who They fired several shots at the windshield, in the direction of the candidate and fled.
According to international media, one of the bullets grazed the candidate’s left arm.
The images circulating on social networks show the windshield of the vehicle destroyed by bullets and broken glass scattered on the ground.
The event occurred in the midst of the commotion caused by the murder de Villavicencio, who was one of the favorites for the presidential 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.
