Argentina: A deputy of the majority wounded by a bullet, a civil servant killed

Hector Olivares, a member of the Cambiemos coalition supporting President Macri, was riddled with bullets from a car. A mafia crime? An Argentina deputy, Hector Olivares, of the Cambiemos government coalition, was shot and killed on Thursday near the Parliament building in Buenos Aires and an official who was accompanying him was killed. "They were riddled with bullets, the act was premeditated," said MP José Cano on the TN channel. Marcelo Yadón, 58, an official of the province of La Rioja (North-West), perished in the attack, he said. Hector Olivares, 61, MP from the same province, and also shot, was rushed to hospital in serious condition.

The attack occurred around 7 am local time when shots from a car hit the two men walking on the square near Congress. "According to the information we have, the car parked half an hour before and they were waiting for them, because Olivares used to go out and walk to this place every day with Yadón, "explained José Cano. "Hector's state of health is delicate," said Gustavo Galvan, another UCR deputy from La Rioja. This relative of the wounded MP told TN that Hector Olivares did not tell him that he had received threats. The deputy was supposed to return Thursday at the end of the day in his province of La Rioja...........