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The mayor, shot by assassins, continues in critical condition

The mayor, shot by assassins, continues in critical condition

José Carlos Acevedo received seven bullet wounds, two of them in the neck, during the attack perpetrated yesterday in front of the headquarters of the Pedro Juan Caballero Municipality that produced a cardiac arrest in the hospital hours later, from which the doctors managed to revive him. .

The medical report indicates that the mayor spent three hours in surgery.

Images circulated on social networks of the moment in which different people assist the mayor on the floor, after the attack.

The two Acevedo brothers belong to the Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), the main opposition to the ruling Colorado Party at the national level in Paraguay.

A daughter of Governor Acevedo, Haylee, 21, was murdered by gunmen in October of last year.

The attack “challenges all Paraguayans about the insecurity we are experiencing today, we have suffered an unprecedented escalation of violence in recent years,” the Colorado presidential candidate said yesterday Santiago Penawho demanded a “firm response from our authorities.”

“We cannot continue like this,” added Peña, who belongs to Honor Colorado, the internal line led by the former president. Horace Cartes and is at odds with the one that responds to the current president, Mario Abdo Benitez.

For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Federico González, reported that the capital of Amambay was “surrounded by police officers.”

González said that he would travel to that city and that the deputy commander of the National Police, Baldomero Benítez, was on his way there.

He also added that “all the necessary measures” would be taken to find those responsible, for which they contacted the security forces in Brazil to be alert and also assigned agents from the Joint Task Force (FTC).

The Public Ministry announced on Twitter that “the prosecutor José L. Torres, the prosecutor for Organized Crime Federico Delfino and the prosecutor for Drug Trafficking Celso Morales will intervene in the case of the attack.”

Source: Ambito

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