Seven people were murdered in Tegucigalpa Wednesday by gunmen in the second massacre in as many days in Honduras, a Central American country gripped by gang violence, police said.
Six men and a woman, all aged between 18 and 36, were taken from three separate houses to a location in the southwest of the city where they were shot and killed, police spokesman Leonel Sauceda told reporters.
On Tuesday, in the north of the country, another eight people working for a local transport company were killed in a separate attack, he added.
The motives for the massacres were not yet known, Sauceda said.
Honduras is suffering frequent bloodshed linked to armed street gangs that battle each other and the police.
Drivers and other employees of bus companies have been especially targeted by the gangs, which extort money from them for a so-called “war tax”.
Six men and a woman, all aged between 18 and 36, were taken from three separate houses to a location in the southwest of the city where they were shot and killed, police spokesman Leonel Sauceda told reporters.
On Tuesday, in the north of the country, another eight people working for a local transport company were killed in a separate attack, he added.
The motives for the massacres were not yet known, Sauceda said.
Honduras is suffering frequent bloodshed linked to armed street gangs that battle each other and the police.
Drivers and other employees of bus companies have been especially targeted by the gangs, which extort money from them for a so-called “war tax”.
Seven massacred by gunmen in Honduran capital
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