Organized crime prosecutor in Ecuador's Guayas killed-AG's office

A police barricade tape is seen at a cordoned-off area where Ecuadorean prosecutor Cesar Suarez, who focused on cases involving organized trans-national crime in Guayas province, was killed, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, January 17, 2024. REUTERS/Vicente Gaibor del Pino

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean prosecutor Cesar Suarez, who focused on pursuing organized trans-national crime in Guayas province, one of the country's most violent areas and the site of an on-air attack on a television station last week, has been killed, the attorney general said on Wednesday.

Suarez, who had been placed in charge of investigating the television station attack, was traveling to a court hearing when he was killed, the council of the judiciary said in a statement condemning the attack.