Ecuador prosecutor investigating gang attack on TV station shot and killed

César Suárez killed in brazen daylight attack in Guayaquil as country shaken by dramatic recent surge in violence

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The public prosecutor who was leading the investigation into the on-air assault on an Ecuadorian television station has been shot and killed in a brazen daylight attack in the crime-ridden city of Guayaquil.

César Suárez, who focused on cases involving organized trans-national crime in Guayas province – one of the country’s most violent areas – was ambushed in the north of the city on Wednesday afternoon.