FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan migrant holds his passport at a queue to get a temporary residency permit outside the immigration office in Lima, Peru August 20, 2018. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo/File Photo
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador is setting up new units to check Venezuelan immigrants' legal status and may tighten entry requirements after a Venezuelan man murdered his pregnant Ecuadorian girlfriend, President Lenin Moreno said on Sunday.
The killing in the northern city of Ibarra is the first reported murder perpetrated by a Venezuelan immigrant in Ecuador since hundreds of thousands have arrived there after fleeing an economic crisis in Venezuela.
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