Three arrests in Ecuador over murder of young Argentine woman

TODAY 16:30

Three people have been arrested as part of a probe into the murder of Argentine citizen Andrea Pedraza in Ecuador in March.

Police in Ecuador have arrested three suspects over their alleged involvement in disappearance and death of an Argentine woman off the coast of the country.

The news by confirmed by Ecuador's Interior Minister María Paula Romo on Saturday, who said that the alleged perpetrator and two others had been detained.

"The alleged perpetrator and two alleged accomplices of Andrea Pedraza's femicide have been arrested in recent hours," the minister said in a post on Twitter.

The victim was reported to have arrived in Ecuador in June 2019 for reasons of tourism, eventually settling at the coastal town of Ballenita, Santa Elena Province, in the country's southwest.

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Two women from Argentina were also murdered at the spa town of Montañita, in the same province, in February 2016.

More:
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/three-arrested-in-the-murder-of-an-argentine-woman-in-ecuador.phtml

Looks like a beautiful area, but a good place to avoid:

https://ec.viajandox.com/en/santa-elena-P28