Paraguayan Presidential Candidate Lino Oviedo Dies in Crash
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Paraguayan presidential candidate Lino Oviedo, a former army chief who led a failed coup in 1996, died Feb. 2 in a helicopter accident.
The wreckage was found in the Presidente Hayes department in central Paraguay, police officer Benito Almiron, a member of the Paraguayan police’s press office, said in a telephone interview from Asuncion. Police are working at the site of the accident, which also killed the pilot and Oviedo’s bodyguard.