Two Nicaraguan municipal candidates killed before elections
22/10/2008 17:20
Two Sandinista candidates for municipal elections in Nicaragua were killed
on the weekend in two separate incidents, local media reported.
Erling Cruz,
Sandinista leader of the northern municipality of Terrabona, died Monday in a
hospital in Matagalpa province, northeast of Managua. He was allegedly shot by
Edwin Bojorge, a member of the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC).
Cruz was
reported to receive nine gun shots Sunday in Matagalpa after he had a verbal
confrontation with Bojorge.
The other victim, Juan Robleto, is the Sandinista
candidate for the councilor in the Caribbean municipality of El Rama. He was
killed on the weekend by unknown people during an ambush in the community El
Toro, some 300 km east of Managua.
Local media blamed PLC activists for the
violence.
The elections will be held on Nov. 9 in 146 municipalities in
Nicaragua.
Xinhua
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