VILLA VASQUEZ.- The country’s electoral campaign concluded with violence in the Northwest, when members of the ruling PLD and opposition PRD parties in a shootout in this municipality, leaving three dead, among them former deputy Antonio Fernandez, 50, and several wounded.

The other two deceased are Carlos Polanco, 43, of the PLD and Isidro Polanco Tavárez, 47, of the PRD.

The shootings took place at 9:45 p.m. when two vehicles called “disco lights” promoting the two opposing presidential candidates came across each other in the street and an argument ensued.

Fernandez, who had recently left the PRD to formally join the PLD, had just left one of his businesses in the area, together with Polanco, who according to newspaper El Caribe, was one of his bodyguards.

The bodies were taken to \a morgue in Villa Vásquez.