Global Courant
At least 11 people were shot to death on the night of Saturday June 24 inside a billiard hall in the Choloma sector, Cortés department, in northern Honduras, local media reported.
According to the preliminary version, the multiple crime was recorded in the Victoria neighborhood, Choloma jurisdiction, as far as armed men arrived and shot at close range.
The victims are 10 men and one woman, according to the brief information.
Three other people were shot in the bloody event, which the National Police had not reported until 10:30 p.m. local time.
Until now, the identity of the victims of the second massacre recorded this week in the Central American country is unknown.
This Saturday the local press has also reported at least eight other people killed in different violent acts, only in the department of Cortés.
Today’s massacre is added to that of last Tuesday, when 46 women died in a brawl, followed by a fire, at the Women’s Center for Social Adaptation (Cefas), near Tegucigalpa.
Of the 46 victims, 23 died from firearms and blades, while the rest were burned in the fire.
On Thursday, three other people, a woman and two men, were killed in the Río de Piedras neighborhood of San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras.
The woman was identified as Erika Bandy García, wife of the alleged Honduran drug trafficker Nery Orlando López, murdered in a prison in 2019.
One of the men was Garcia’s driver and the other his bodyguard, according to the National Police.
Criminal violence in Honduras leaves between 10 and 15 people dead every day, according to official sources.
