Ecuadorian beauty queen dies during liposuction procedure she won in contest

A 19yr old Ecuadorian beauty queen and medical student Catherine Cando (pictured above) has died from a during a botched liposuction operation which she got as a prize in a local beauty contest Saturday January 10th.

According to local media reports, Catherine, who is also a medical student won money and cosmetic surgery procedure after beating 23 other girls to win Ecuador's Queen of Durán beauty contest in 2014. Her brother, Daniel Zavela said Catherine initially rejected the surgery because she was young and figured she could lose the weight by working out but caved in when a surgeon pressured her.

"She was thinking about letting someone else have it as a freebie but eventually she agreed to have it just to get him off her back,"  Daniel told the media

The beautiful young Miss Cando, who was studying medicine at the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil, agreed to do the surgery and went into the private clinic on Saturday but died during the procedure. Meanwhile, though two doctors who performed the operation on her have been arrested because authorities believe Catherine died due to their negligence but the authorities are not investigating her death.