Ecuador president unharmed in attack on motorcade | News

QUITO, Oct 8, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa escaped unharmed after his motorcade was targeted by stone-hurling protestors and what one minister described as a volley of gunshots Tuesday. Noboa was inaugurating a water treatment plant in central Ecuador when his motorcade was set on by a large group protesting rising fuel prices. "About 500 people showed up and were throwing stones at him, and there are obviously bullet marks on the president's car as well," said Environment Minister Ines Manzano. Video released by the government, reportedly filmed from inside the motorcade, shows protesters standing in the road, draped in flags, scrambling to collect large stones and bricks. As the presidential SUV passed, projectiles thudded into the paneling...