Octave murder in Honduras over a piece of land

An eight-fold murder took place in Honduras when unknown gunmen shot six men, a woman and a child while they were in a car. “They died instantly,” Honduran police spokesman Edgardo Baraona said.

The attack took place in the El Portillo de la Mora region, about 70 kilometers north of the capital Tegucigalpa. “We hypothesize that (the murders) due to a conflict over land» between families, said to local media the representative of the Police in the province of Comayagua, Norman Velasquez.

Honduras continues to be among the world’s worst violent crime nations. The homicide rate fell in 2022 to 35.79 per 100,000 inhabitants, in other words at the lowest level of the last sixteen years, reports APE-MPE, citing AFP.

Source: News Beast

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