Ecuadoran hate crimes prosecutor murdered
A prosecutor who investigated hate crimes and femicide was murdered outside the Ecuadoran public prosecutor's office in Guayaquil on Monday, the government body reported.
Edgar Escobar, 43, was "shot this morning" by gunmen outside the building where he worked in the port city, the public prosecutor's office released in a statement via Twitter.
Escobar's murder comes at a time when Ecuador is reeling from a surge in violence related to drug trafficking in which rival gangs have sown terror in Guayaquil and its prison system.
The killing is the latest in a string of high-profile shootings in the nation of 18 million, including those of a judge and a public prosecutor.
Escobar's murder also comes hot on the heels of the disappearance of lawyer María Belen Bernal, 34, from a police school in Quito.
At: https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/ecuadoran-hate-crimes-prosecutor-murdered.phtml
Ecuadoran federal prosecutor Edgar Escobar.
His assassination is the latest in a series of murders targeting the country's judiciary.
