厄瓜多尔两名地方选举候选人在竞选集会上遭枪杀：另有一名女子死亡、枪手骑摩托车逃离
厄瓜多尔国家警察证实，11月9日晚约8时45分，该国南部埃尔奥罗省与秘鲁接壤的 Huaquillas 市发生枪击事件：4名武装男子骑着两辆摩托车，向 Los Israelitas 区一处正在举行的竞选集会开枪。前市长、正在再次竞选市长的 Ronald Farfán 与市议员候选人 Cristhian Rugel 中弹，另有一名63岁的女商贩 Hilda Ruiz 也被击中，事件共造成3人死亡、1名男子受伤。
据警方与当地媒体的说法，集会在 Eugenio Espejo 街与 Cristóbal Colón 街交口举行，两名候选人原定当晚与支持者见面，为11月29日举行的全国地方选举造势。Rugel 当场死亡，Farfán 被送往当地一家诊所后被确认死亡，Ruiz 在送医途中死亡。Huaquillas 市政府谴责了这起袭击，并宣布全市哀悼三天。
埃尔奥罗省等地警察负责人、警务上校 Renato González 说，4名枪手骑摩托车到场后专门向两名候选人开枪；初步调查的一条线索是 Rugel 此前曾有遭勒索的记录，但警方尚未正式确定作案动机，截至目前也没有逮捕任何人。
埃尔奥罗省是厄瓜多尔沿海五省之一，自11月1日起按总统 Daniel Noboa 的命令实行夜间宵禁，目的是压制高企的暴力与犯罪数字。据厄瓜多尔有组织犯罪观察站汇总的数据，今年上半年该省的凶杀率居全国之首，约为每10万人68.74起，同比上升约62%。这次针对候选人的袭击发生在地方选举竞选期开始前数日。
（来源：厄瓜多尔国家警察）
Two Local Election Candidates Shot Dead at Campaign Gathering in Ecuador; a Third Woman Also Killed
Ecuador's National Police confirmed that at about 8:45 p.m. on Nov. 9, four armed men riding two motorcycles opened fire on a campaign gathering in the Los Israelitas district of Huaquillas, a city in the southern province of El Oro on the border with Peru. Ronald Farfán, a former mayor running again for the office, and Cristhian Rugel, a candidate for the municipal council, were shot, as was Hilda Ruiz, a 63-year-old merchant at the scene; three people were killed in all, and one man was wounded.
According to police and local media, the gathering was held at the corner of Eugenio Espejo and Cristóbal Colón streets, where the two candidates were to meet supporters ahead of nationwide local elections set for Nov. 29. Rugel died at the scene, Farfán was confirmed dead after being taken to a local clinic, and Ruiz died on the way to hospital. The Huaquillas municipal government condemned the attack and declared three days of mourning.
Police Colonel Renato González, who commands the police in El Oro and neighbouring provinces, said the four gunmen arrived by motorcycle and fired specifically at the two candidates. He said one early line of investigation involves a prior extortion incident targeting Rugel, but that no motive has been officially established and no arrests have been made.
El Oro is one of five coastal provinces placed under a night-time curfew from Nov. 1 by order of President Daniel Noboa in an effort to curb high levels of violence and crime. Figures compiled by the Ecuadorian Organized Crime Observatory put the province's homicide rate in the first half of this year at about 68.74 per 100,000 residents, the highest in the country and up about 62 percent year on year. The attack on the candidates came days before the official start of campaigning for the local elections.
(Source: National Police of Ecuador)
来源：厄瓜多尔国家警察
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