Gunmen Open Fire in Two Separate Attacks on the Honduras Coast, Killing at Least 16 People, Police Say
Investigators are probing possible links to land disputes and drug trafficking as the death toll may rise, police said.
- On Thursday, gunmen launched two separate attacks on the Honduran coast, killing at least 16 people, including six police officers, the Honduran National Police reported.
- At a ranch in Trujillo, at least 10 workers were shot and killed, though Honduran National Police spokesperson Edgardo Barahona said the final toll remains unclear because relatives removed bodies.
- Assailants targeted police in Omoa, Cortes, killing six officers during an anti-gang mission while traveling from Tegucigalpa near the Guatemalan border, police said.
- Investigators, forensic specialists, and prosecutors are deploying to both attack sites, with the National Police and armed forces responding to the areas, the Security Ministry said.
- A decades-long agrarian conflict has historically impacted the resource-rich region where these violent events unfolded, providing context to ongoing instability in Honduras.
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A new wave of violence linked to organized crime has left at least 24 dead in Honduras after two massacres were recorded with a few hours of difference. In the first attack, perpetrated on Thursday, at least 19 workers from an African palm farm were killed in the municipality of Trujillo (Colón department), in the Honduran Caribbean, while preparing to start their working day. A few hours later, five police officers were kidnapped and killed in …
By Elvin Sandoval, CNN en Español. Honduras experienced a wave of violence this Thursday, with two separate incidents leaving at least 25 people dead. One of the incidents occurred in the community of Rigores, in the municipality of Trujillo, north of the capital. There, for more than 12 hours, the National Police worked to locate and identify the bodies of 20 people who were killed, the departmental police chief, Carlos Eduardo Rojas, told CNN.…
In Honduras several people have been shot in two attacks in the north of the country, including police officers. Now the military is in action. The region has been struggling with gang crime for years.[more]]>
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