Argentine
lawmaker Hector Olivares died on Sunday after he was shot in what authorities
called a `mafia-style` attack outside Congress in downtown Buenos Aires on
Thursday, according to state-run news agency Telam. Olivares underwent surgery
after being shot and had been listed in “serious condition,” officials said.
But he died at Ramos Mejia hospital in Buenos Aires, Telam reported, citing
police and judicial sources. Argentine lawmaker Héctor
Olivares and his adviser and friend Miguel Marcelo Yadón, were walking
side-by-side on a sidewalk near Argentina’s National Congress in Buenos Aires
on Thursday morning when gunmen ambushed them.Government aide Miguel Yadon was
also shot in the attack and died at the scene.Argentine authorities announced
the arrests of members of a mafia gang on Friday. Security Minister Patricia
Bullrich said that all members of the group had been detained, including one
who had fled across the border to Uruguay.Local officials and media have
indicated the motive was personal, rather than political, and that the gang had
targeted Yadon specifically.
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