Drug Violence Kills 9 in
Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA - Nine Hondurans have been
killed in an overnight shooting in the
capital city of Tegucigalpa with the finger
of blame falling on Mexican drug gangs.
Masked men armed with automatic weapons
opened fire on the street of a poor area of
Tegucigalpa Saturday night before storming
two houses, where they killed seven men and
two women, police said on Sunday
"These deaths were provoked by territorial
disputes between drug traffickers,"
Tegucigalpa's police chief Mario Chamorro
told reporters.
Honduras, a key transit route for US-bound
Colombian cocaine, has seen a rise in
drug-related violence this past year as
powerful Mexican cartels struggle over
smuggling corridors through Mexico and
Central America.
Last year, nearly 1,600 people fell victim
to drug-fueled violence in Honduras.
Meanwhile, drug violence continues to
scourge neighboring Mexico, despite a
massive military clampdown which has been in
place since President Felipe Calderon took
office in 2006.
Almost 20,000 people have been killed in the
tug-of-war between rival cartels and clashes
between the powerful mobsters and the
Mexican police. |
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