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Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, was shot dead inside a vehicle. The mayor of San Vicente, a city in Manabí province in western Ecuador, was found dead on Sunday, along with local government adviser and communications director Jeroen Lure, national police said.
He said ballistic evidence inside the car has been collected by forensic experts to confirm murder. At the age of 27, Mayer was the country's youngest politician and a member of the civil revolution movement led by former President Rafael Correa.
The killings come at a time when Ecuador is fighting organized crime. The country has declared a state of emergency and 'internal armed conflict' as it tries to dismantle 22 criminal gangs designated as 'terrorist' by the government after a wave of unprecedented violence.
This is the second killing of an officer in Manabi in recent months. In July 2023, Agustín Intriago, the mayor of Manta, was assassinated during a visit to the city. Killings have been on the rise in Ecuador since presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed in an armed attack following a political rally in the capital Quito last August.