Gunshots fired at Ecuador president’s motorcade

Ecuador’s president emerged unharmed from an evident weapon onslaught connected his motorcade Tuesday, a apical curate said.

Daniel Noboa was opening a h2o attraction works successful cardinal Ecuador erstwhile his convoy was acceptable connected by hundreds of protestors, according to the situation minister, Ines Manzano.

About “500 radical showed up and were throwing stones astatine him, and determination are evidently slug marks connected the president’s car arsenic well,” she said.

“Thank God, our president, precise firm, brave, keeps moving forward, is carrying retired his docket arsenic usual,” she added.

The authorities released video, purportedly taken from wrong the motorcade, that showed protestors draped successful flags scrambling to find rocks and bricks to hurl arsenic the statesmanlike conveyance passed.

“Cover your head! Cover your head!” a dependable is heard saying arsenic projectiles thudded into an SUV, shattering astatine slightest 1 window.

Ecuador has faced days of sometimes convulsive protests implicit a determination to rise diesel prices.

The authorities has accused cartels — who are vying for power of cocaine trading routes — of being down the unrest.

AFP

The station Gunshots fired astatine Ecuador president’s motorcade appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.