ASUNCION: Paraguayan presidential candidate Lino Cesar Oviedo has died in a helicopter crash on Saturday night, he was 69, authorities said on Sunday.
The former army chief was returning with his bodyguard from a political rally Saturday night in northern Paraguay when his pilot encountered bad weather.
All three died in the crash, said Johnny Villalba, a spokesman for Paraguay’s airport authority.
“The causes of the accident and other details are being investigated by experts from the Center for Investigations and Prevention of Air Accidents,” Villalba said.
Oviedo was running in April’s elections as leader of Paraguay’s third-largest opposition party, the National Union of Ethical Citizens.
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