null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).The archbishop of Portoviejo, Eduardo José Castillo Pino, asked the faithful to pray for the end of violence in Ecuador and expressed his solidarity with the victims and injured left by a shooting that occurred Thursday morning at a funeral home in Manta, a port city on the central coast."Once more, crime and terror again destroy the lives of so many people, and fill us all with fear and insecurity," the prelate said in a May 18 statement to ACI Prensa, CNA s Spanish-language news partner."For the victims and injured in the attack in Manta, and their families, all our closeness and solidarity. A heartfelt prayer for all of them, for their eternal rest and for the peace and strengthening of their families," he continued.Around 10 a.m. local time on May 18 at the Gardens of Eden funeral home, unidentified persons arrived at the wake of Andrés Agustín Moreira and opened fire on those present.
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