Ms Garcia - a member of former president Rafael Correa s left-wing Citizen Revolution Movement party - is the latest political figure assassinated in Ecuador.
Ecuador’s youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and her staffer have been found shot dead in a car, said police in the South American country, which is in the grips of a wave of violence that authorities blame on drug trafficking. They were found on Sunday. Ecuador National Police in a statement said they were investigating the deaths of Garcia, the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente, and Jairo Loor, her communications director, after the discovery of their bodies in the province of Manabi. Both had suffered gunshot wounds.
The youngest mayor in Ecuadorian history, Brigitte Garcia, 27,(pictured) and her staffer. Jairo Loor, were shot dead in the latest spree of political killings in the crime-ridden country.
President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency in January amid a spike in violence that saw armed men invade a TV station during a live broadcast.
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