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Air force colonel shot dead by hitmen while driving to military ceremony in Ecuador

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Colonel Porfirio Cedeño was the passenger in a van taking him to a military ceremony.

More than 20 shots were fired and the driver was hit in the leg in the attack in Guayaquil .

The South American nation has been plunged into violence by the rapid spread of transnational cartels that use its ports to ship drugs.

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69

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65

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75

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formal

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English

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53

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likely offensive

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short-lived

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