{"id":198209,"date":"2025-12-18T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198209\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:48:07","slug":"mario-pineida-ecuador-defender-killed-in-shooting-in-guayaquil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/198209\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Pineida: Ecuador defender killed in shooting in Guayaquil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ecuador defender Mario Pineida has died at the age of 33 after being shot in Guayaquil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local media reported that Pineida was shot on Wednesday by two people on motorbikes who opened fire on him, his mother and another woman outside a shop in the north of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ecuador&#8217;s interior ministry said it has sent a special police unit to investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guayaquil has become a hotspot for gang violence and drug trafficking, with 1,900 murders recorded between January and September &#8211; the highest in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three second-tier footballers were killed in September and a local player was wounded in a shooting in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ecuador defender Mario Pineida has died at the age of 33 after being shot in Guayaquil. Local media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-198209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}