Robbers wound man playing Pokeman Go in Ecuador

Myanmar youths in central Yangon play Pokemon Go, the global craze that is also causing alarm as it is increasingly becoming a health hazard. On Thursday, an American was shot and wounded by robbers as he played the game in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun)

QUITO, Ecuador: Ecuadorean police said Tuesday that robbers shot and seriously wounded an American man as he was playing Pokeman Go in a park in the coastal city of Guayaquil.
The victim, Mitchell Cleve Williams, had come to the South American country recently to marry an Ecuadorean woman, police said. He was playing the game at a park Sunday night when two youths approached him and demanded his cellphone. When he resisted, they shot him.
The 35-year-old was reported in serious condition at a hospital in Guayaquil.
Police said they couldn’t give the man’s hometown and the US Embassy declined to comment.