Paraguay’s top prosecutor killed on honeymoon on Colombian beach

Shooting of Marcelo Pecci in front of his wife decried by Paraguayan president as cowardly murder'

A Paraguayan public prosecutor who led a string of high-profile cases against organised crime and drug trafficking has been shot dead as he honeymooned on a Colombian beach.

Marcelo Pecci married Claudia Aguilera, a well-known journalist, on 30 April and they were spending their honeymoon at a hotel on the Baru peninsula on Colombia's Caribbean coast.