2024-01-19 05:56:23
Three men were murdered this Thursday in northern Honduras by unknown armed individuals, which represents the second massacre that occurred in the country so far in 2024reported an official source.
The massacre occurred in the municipality of El Progreso, department of Yoro, northern Honduras, where the three men They were intercepted by gunmen who took them to another place and killed them.according to a preliminary report from the National Police.
The lifeless bodies were located face down near a nursery in the village of Las Minas, where the victims worked, and They had gunshot wounds, according to the Honduran Police. Police officers cordoned off the area and deployed a device in search of suspects, but so far they have not obtained results.
The security forces investigating the multiple murder have not determined the motive for the crime or the identity of the victims.
Last week three women were found dead who had disappeared since January 8 on the island of Roatán, in the Caribbean of Honduras. The victims were identified as Dione Solórzano, Nikendra McCoy and María Antonia Cruz, who disappeared after leaving the community of Punta Gorda on the 7th in the company of the American Gilbert Santiago Reyes, who traveled to the United States on the 8th.
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Reyes, the main suspect in the crime, had been a romantic partner of Dione Solórzano, with whom he had a son, and according to unofficial versions, he has a violent history in the Central American country. The Honduran authorities do not rule out, after investigations, request the United States for extradition of Kings. The attorney general (acting) of Honduras, Johel Antonio Zelaya, said last Friday that there is an Extradition Treaty between Honduras and the United States, in force since 1909, which was expanded in 1927, to extradite nationals of the two countries in cases of crimes like the one recorded in Roatán.
In Honduras, an average of between ten and thirteen people die violently every day, which places the country as one of the most violent in the world, with 31.14 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023, according to official figures.
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