A man and his son dead in a gunfight this Tuesday Registered in the department of Cortés in northern Honduras A police officer was also seriously injured.An official source reported.
The incident occurred in the municipality of Santa Cruz de Yojoa, in Cortés. police told reporters, National Police, Belkis Valladares. He added that the police “repulsed” the attack that killed Virgilio Velásquez and his son Yansel Velásquez, who died in a hospital where they were taken injured. A spokesperson for the police said that one of the unidentified agents was seriously injured by bullets in the stomach and would undergo surgery for this.
Honduras is among the countries that have highest rates of violence in the world without living in war, According to human rights organizations and police sources, there are an average of ten to fifteen murders per day. Honduran authorities attribute criminal violence in part to organized crime, drug trafficking and gangs known as “maras”. According to the authorities, the ‘MS’ (Mara Salvatrucha) and ‘Barrio-18’ gangs are the most fearsome and both are fighting for the territories they control in various cities of the Central American country.