There were three men murdered This Thursday in Northern Honduras by unknown gunmen. The second massacre in the country so far in 2024reported an official source.
The massacre took place in the El Progreso municipality of Yoro province in northern Honduras. They were captured by gunmen who took them to another location and killed them.According to the preliminary report of the National Police.
The dead bodies were placed face down near a children’s home in the village of Las Minas, where the victims worked. They were injured by bulletsAccording to Honduran Police. Police teams have cordoned off the area and deployed devices to search for the suspects, but so far have not yielded any results.
Security forces investigating the multiple murders were unable to determine the motive for the crime or the identities of the victims.
Last week three women found dead He has been missing since January 8 on the island of Roatán in the Honduran Caribbean. 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, along with American Gilbert Santiago Reyes, who left for the United States on the 8th.
Reyes, the prime suspect in the crime, was the romantic partner of Dione Solórzano and had a son with her, and according to unofficial versions, he has a violent past in the Central American country. Honduran authorities do not rule out the following after investigations: Extradition request from the USA Of kings. Honduras’ acting attorney general, Johel Antonio Zelaya, said last Friday that there is an Extradition Treaty between Honduras and the United States, in force since 1909 and expanded in 1927, to extradite citizens of the two countries. Crimes similar to the one recorded in Roatán.
An average of 10 to 13 people die violently every day in Honduras, making it one of the most violent countries in the world, with 31.14 homicides per 100,000 people in 2023, according to official figures.