Bogota - Argentinian lawmaker Hector Olivares died Sunday after
being shot in Buenos Aires's Congressional Plaza three days earlier,
his party confirmed.
Olivares, a lawmaker with the centrist Union Civica Radical (UCR)
party, was shot by individuals sitting in a parked car as he was
walking near the Argentine Congress with government aide Miguel Yadon
early Thursday.
Yadon was also shot and died at the scene.
"Hector Olivares died," UCR said in a tweet late Sunday. "We will
demand justice and that the killers serve an effective sentence."
Pedestrians react at the crime scene where Argentine Congressman Hector Olivares was injured and his adviser, Miguel Yadon was killed in an attack near the National Congress in Buenos Aires. File picture: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters
"All those involved in the attack on lawmaker Olivares and Miguel
Yadon have been detained, one day after committing the crime, thanks
to the impressive work of our community forces," Argentinian
President Mauricio Macri said on Friday.
Evidence tent markers dot the crime scene where lawmaker Hector Olivares was injured and another man was killed after they were shot at from a parked car near Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, File picture: Natacha Pisarenko/AP
Six people were arrested following the attack, Telam state news
agency reported, adding that all six were "part of a gypsy clan."
A police officer stands next to blood on the sidewalk at the crime scene near the National Congress in Buenos Aires. File picture: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters
On Friday, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said that Yadon
appeared to be the target of the attack. "A mafia clan ... killed a
person over issues of a personal nature," she said.