Relatives and residents of the Ecuadorian town of Arenillas, near the border with Peru, gather for the funeral of Mayor Eber Ponce, who was fatally shot and died hours later in a hospital, officials said. The coffin is carried through the streets of the canton, stopping at the town church for a funeral mass before being taken to the municipal offices, where officials pay their respects. Ponce, 46, was fatally shot five times in a brutal attack that came less than a month before presidential elections in Ecuador, a country wracked by drug gang violence. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES