(11 Aug 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quito, Ecuador - 11 August 2023
1. Police motorcycle units leaving the wake house
2. Various of a hearse carrying the body of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio leaving Quito's Vertical Cemetery
3. Supporter crying as the hearse passes
4. Various of hearse, police motorbikes, and vehicles taking part in the funeral procession
5. Various of cemetery employees moving the casket out of the hearse
6. Various of police guarding the casket
7. Family members crying
8. Relatives gathering
9. Various of Fernando Villavicencio's daughter Tamia next to the casket at cemetery chapel and police guarding ceremony
10. Casket with bouquets on top
11. Various of ceremony at Quito's Monteolivo cemetery
STORYLINE:
The body of Fernando Villavicencio arrived at the Monteolivo cemetery in Quito on Friday.

The Ecuadorian presidential candidate was assassinated on Wednesday.

While Villavicencio was honoured publicly at the capital's convention centre, his family, concerned for their safety, organised a private farewell for relatives and friends.

Ecuador will hold six Colombian men for at least a month as the country probes their possible involvement in slaying the presidential candidate, whose life's work was fighting crime and corruption.

Villavicencio was not a front-runner in the race.

But his assassination in broad daylight less than two weeks before a special presidential election shocked the country and demonstrated how surging crime will challenge Ecuador's next leader.

Violence linked to gangs and cartels has recently claimed thousands of lives.


AP Video by Cesar Olmos

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