Clash over fuel prices in Ecuador leaves 1 dead

A violent clash on Sunday in Ecuador between law enforcement authorities and Indigenous people protesting the end of a fuel subsidy left one civilian dead and 12 soldiers injured.

- AP

The military and the national Indigenous organisation behind the demonstrations traded blame for the violence that developed in the Andean community north of the capital, Quito. Ecuador's ministries of Defense and Interior did not immediately acknowledge the protester’s death.