Argentina lawmaker shot and injured in apparent attack

By The Associated Press

Posted May 9, 2019 09:27:22 AM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine authorities say that a lawmaker has been seriously injured in a shooting and his aide has been killed.

Officials say that lawmaker Hector Olivares and the aide were shot at from a moving vehicle Thursday at around 7 a.m. local time near the congressional building in the Argentine capital.

Olivares is a representative of La Rioja province in Argentina’s lower house of Congress. He is being treated at a hospital in Buenos Aires.

The Telam state news agency identified the man who was killed as Marcelo Yadon. Telam says that the men were shot at least six times.

Authorities are investigating.

The Associated Press

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