Guatemalan lawmaker and three police officers killed in armed attack

Congressman Julio Portillo was targeted in an armed attack on Friday in Rio Hondo, in Guatemala’s eastern Zacapa department. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries, and his death was later confirmed by his party, the National Unity of Hope (UNE); three police officers were also killed. Authorities have not disclosed a motive or identified those responsible, while President Bernardo Arevalo instructed security forces to cooperate with prosecutors. The killings came about three weeks after former anticorruption prosecutor Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa was murdered, though authorities have established no connection between the attacks.