Six suspects in murder of Ecuador presidential candidate killed in prison, authorities say
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The six Colombians had been arrested on the day Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead in August
Six men suspected of involvement in the August murder of Ecuador's anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio have been killed in prison, the prisons agency has said, barely a week before a crucial run-off election.
The killings took place on Friday in a penitentiary in Guayaquil, the South American country's largest city, the attorney general's office announced earlier.
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