Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The motorcade of President Daniel Noboa Azin came under protester attack Tuesday in central Ecuador, according to officials who are vowing to hold those responsible to account. Protesters, meanwhile, are accusing the president of inciting the violence.
Video of the incident posted to the official X account of the office of the president shows the caravan driving through a road littered with concrete rubble and lined by hundreds of masked protesters holding Ecuadorian flags and throwing rocks at the vehicles.
"No one can come and take by force the capital that belongs to all Ecuadorians," Noboa said in a statement following the incident.
"Those who choose violence will be met by the law. Those who act like criminals will be treated as criminals."
Esta mañana en Cañar la caravana presidencial sufrió ataques violentos obedeciendo órdenes de radicalización. Intentaron impedir, por la fuerza, la entrega de obras destinadas a mejorar la vida de comunidades en esta provincia.
