assassination

before election
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45451473 Brazil's presidential front-runner, Jair Bolsonaro, lost 40% of his blood after he was stabbed on Thursday, hospital officials say. The far-right politician was attacked at a campaign rally in Minas Gerais. Doctors say he suffered a deep and life-threatening wound in his intestines, but is now recovering well.

egypt
- The assassination of Boutros Ghali in 1910 was the first of a series of assassinations that continued until 1915.^[6] It was also the first public assassination of a senior statesman in Egypt in more than a century.

philippines
- On July 2, 2018, during a flag raising ceremony, antonio Halili was shot by an unidentified sniper. The bullet hit a mobile phone in Halili’s pocket and pierced his chest. Halili’s bodyguards fired back towards a hill where the bullet appeared to have come from. The police searched the hill but failed to find anyone. Bystanders were shocked, and began panicking and taking cover. Halili was driven to the Reyes Memorial Hospital and was declared dead less than an hour after the bullet was fired. Philippine National Police Chief Director General Oscar Albayaldesaid that a regional special task group had been convened to investigate the killing, and was considering the suspect parades a motive. One day later, another Philippine Mayor, Ferdinand Bote of General Tinio, Nueva Ecija, was also shot.