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One person has been killed and several others injured after a vehicle exploded outside a shopping centre in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

A ‘loud bang’ was heard at around 6pm local time yesterday, with footage half an hour later showing a parked van with smoke and fire pouring out.

Samantha Vera, a doctor in the area, was just ‘metres away’ from the blast.

Vera, 40, told AFP: ‘We ran away out of fear that something else might happen. We’re in shock.’ Claudia Quimi, who owns a salon, said the glass windows shook from the ‘horrifying blast’.

A second vehicle with explosives was found nearby, but it failed to detonate and has been neutralised, Interior Minister John Reimberg sai

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