Gunmen kill Ecuador prosecutor after murder trial hearing

Prosecutor Leonardo Palacios killed in Ecuador. (Twitter)

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A prosecutor in Ecuador was killed by gunmen on Thursday, the state attorney general’s office said, on the same day its chief received death threats.

Prosecutor Leonardo Palacios died “after an attack perpetrated against him today” in the town of Duran, near Guayaquil, the attorney general’s office said on Twitter.

Palacios was shot while driving after he had attended a murder trial hearing, the office said.

A secretary of the prosecutor’s office was also in the car but was unharmed, Duran police chief Jorge Hadathy told reporters.

Palacios was killed the same day that the state attorney general, Diana Salazar, received death threats in a video sent on Whatsapp that was broadcast by local media.

The video showed at least six people armed with rifles, dressed in black, and wearing caps to hide their faces.

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