a councilor from the Capitán Bado municipality of Paraguay, on the border with Brazil, died after being the victim of a gun attack The National Police reported this Wednesday as he was driving through that town.
The mayor, whose name is Teobaldo Aquino and a member of the opposition Authentic Radical Liberal Party (PLRA), will return home Tuesday night after attending the regular meeting of the city council, the head of the Department of Security told EFE. • Citizen of the Central Police Department, Commissioner Richer Rodas. According to the officer, the officer shot by a motorcyclist. According to initial investigations, he received a total of 12 gunshot wounds. Aquino was taken to a nearby medical center, where he died of his injuries.
The chief of police stated that personnel specializing in investigative and criminalistics have been deployed to search for the perpetrators of the attack. Rodas revealed that Aquino had a criminal record in 2015 for possession and trafficking in marijuana.
ABC newspaper has published that the Aquino family has been subjected to multiple attacks, including the nephew of the late council member who died in 2021. Aquino’s brother was also the target of a shooting attack in 2017, but he survived. journalism