Francisco Tamariz, the mayor of the coastal town of La Libertad, said his car was riddled with bullets by gunmen without asking who was in the vehicle.
"It was not the armour of the car, it was the mantle of God that covered us and prevented them from killing us," Tamariz says. / Photo: Twitter/@PanchoTamarizG
Francisco Tamariz, the mayor of the coastal town of La Libertad, said on Saturday he escaped unharmed from the Friday evening attack, in which gunmen fired 30 shots at his vehicle. In a subsequent Facebook post, he said he was returning late Friday night from nearby Guayaquil when two gunmen stepped out of a police car and opened fire on his armoured van.
Ecuador will hold a presidential election on Sunday after a campaign marked by the murder of a top candidate and vows to tackle the lawlessness that has engulfed the country.
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