16 members of a family slaughtered in Honduras
September 21st, 2012 - 12:28 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Sep 21 (IANS/EFE) Sixteen members of an extended family were killed Thursday in a remote area of the eastern Honduran province of Olancho, a relative of the victims said.The ... Read more...
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Headless bodies of four women found in Honduras
September 4th, 2012 - 12:21 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Sep 4 (IANS/EFE) Five headless bodies, including those of four young women, were found over the weekend in the Caribbean port city of La Ceiba, a Honduran National Police ... Read more...
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24 die after drinking hooch in Honduras
July 11th, 2012 - 11:16 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, July 11 (IANS) Twentyfour people have died over the past two weeks in Honduras after drinking illicit liquor, said health authorities.The head of epidemicological security for the Health Secretariat, ... Read more...
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One killed as drug plane makes forced landing in Honduras
July 4th, 2012 - 12:43 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, July 4 (IANS/EFE) One person was killed and another injured Tuesday when their small plane loaded with cocaine made a forced landing near the eastern Honduran town of Catacamas, ... Read more...
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Drug-laden plane crashes in Honduras
July 4th, 2012 - 8:52 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, July 4 (IANS) A small plane carrying 600 kg of cocaine crashed in Honduras Tuesday, police said.The pilot was killed and his copilot was injured when the aircraft crashed ... Read more...
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Journalist kidnapped in Honduras
May 10th, 2012 - 11:31 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, May 10 (IANS/EFE) A journalist with HRN, one of Honduras' leading radio networks, was kidnapped here Wednesday while driving to work.Alfredo Villatoro was abducted around 4.45 a.m., HRN said ... Read more...
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TV personality slain in Honduras
April 24th, 2012 - 12:06 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, April 24 (IANS/EFE) Television personality Noel Valladares and his two companions were gunned down Monday in Tegucigalpa, Honduran police said.A fourth person was wounded in the attack, police inspector ... Read more...
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Deadly prison fire an accident: Honduras
February 22nd, 2012 - 12:11 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Feb 22 (IANS/EFE) The fire that claimed 359 lives last week in a prison in central Honduras "was merely an accidental occurrence and not caused by criminal hands", the ... Read more...
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Kids among eight hacked to death in Honduras
January 12th, 2012 - 12:39 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Jan 12 (IANS/EFE) Eight people, four of them children, were murdered in the Caribbean province of Colon, the Honduran government said.The victims, residents of the village of El Regadero, ... Read more...
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58 gays, lesbians slain this year in Honduras
December 15th, 2011 - 11:53 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Dec 15 (IANS/EFE) Dozens of members of Honduras' gay and lesbian community gathered outside the Attorney General's Office in this capital to protest the slayings of 58 gays and ... Read more...
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Cops beat protesting journalists in Honduras
December 14th, 2011 - 11:48 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Dec 14 (IANS/EFE) Several people were beaten by police and troops here Tuesday during a protest to demand justice for 24 journalists murdered in Honduras over the last eight ... Read more...
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Journalist slain in Honduras
December 7th, 2011 - 12:18 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Dec 7 (IANS/EFE) Journalist Luz Marina Paz and a companion were gunned down Tuesday in Tegucigalpa, Honduran police said.Two men on a motorcycle opened fire at Paz and the ... Read more...
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TV reporter shot at in Honduras
October 31st, 2011 - 11:26 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Oct 31 (IANS/EFE) A television reporter was shot and wounded in San Pedro Sula, a city in northern Honduras."My colleague, Edy Andino, has (gunshot) wounds in the legs and ... Read more...
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Activist, wife, slain in Honduras
August 23rd, 2011 - 11:04 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Aug 23 (IANS/EFE) The vice president of a group representing landless peasants in the Caribbean province of Colon was murdered along with his wife, a senior Honduran police officer ... Read more...
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Reporter murdered in Honduras
December 29th, 2010 - 11:25 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Dec 29 (IANS/EFE) Radio reporter Henry Suazo was gunned down Tuesday in La Masica, a town on Honduras' Caribbean coast, his employer said.Suazo was shot dead as he was leaving his ... Read more...
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Lawmaker gunned down in Honduras
December 4th, 2010 - 11:56 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Dec 4 (IANS/EFE) A congressman with Honduras' ruling National Party was fatally shot by unknown assailants in the western city of La Entrada, authorities said.Juan de Jesus Deras Madrid, 33, was ... Read more...
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19 soldiers implicated in plane theft in Honduras
November 7th, 2010 - 4:28 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Nov 7 (IANS/EFE) At least 19 soldiers were implicated in the theft of a plane from a Honduran air base last week, officials said.The aircraft had been seized from drug traffickers ... Read more...
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Police seize 460 kg of cocaine in Honduras
October 8th, 2010 - 12:23 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Oct 8 (IANS/EFE) The Honduran Police have seized 460 kg of cocaine in the country's Caribbean region.The seizure took place Wednesday night in Brus Laguna district of Gracias a Dios province, ... Read more...
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Chinese firm to build hydro-power plants in Honduras
September 10th, 2010 - 11:44 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Sep 10 (IANS/EFE) The Honduran government and Chinese company Sinohydro have signed an agreement to begin construction next year of three dams on the Patuca river to generate electricity up to ... Read more...
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Gang kills 17 in shoemaking workshop in Honduras
September 8th, 2010 - 9:23 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Sep 8 (DPA) A group of armed men killed 17 people working in a shoemaking workshop Tuesday in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, 250 km from Tegucigalpa, police ... Read more...
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Radio host murdered in Honduras
August 26th, 2010 - 9:32 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Aug 26 (IANS/EFE) A journalist working in a radio station was shot dead in northern Honduras, raising the number of mediamen killed in 2010 in Honduras to nine.
Israel Zelaya Diaz, 55, ... Read more...
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Dengue affects 11,000 people in Honduras
June 20th, 2010 - 6:35 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa (Honduras), June 20 (IANS) Around 11,000 people have been infected with dengue and at least 10 have died in Honduras, which has led authorities to announce a red alert across the ... Read more...
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Journalist shot dead in Honduras
March 16th, 2010 - 3:26 pm ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, March 16 (IANS/EFE) Honduran journalist Nahum Palacios was murdered in the northeastern city of Tocoa, becoming the third media professional to die violently in the Central American country over the past ... Read more...
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Drug smugglers’ plane kills motorcyclist in Honduras
December 7th, 2009 - 7:21 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Dec 7 (EFE) A motorcyclist was hit and killed by a small plane carrying cocaine on a highway in northern Honduras, officials said.
Israel Martinez Euceda, 18, was hit by the ... Read more...
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Ousted President Zelaya back in Honduras
September 22nd, 2009 - 5:01 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Sep 22 (DPA) Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned Monday to the Central American country and had taken refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.
Earlier, the de facto government had ... Read more...
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VTV and Telesur journalists arrested in Honduras
July 13th, 2009 - 1:07 am ICT by admin
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (BNO NEWS) -- Several journalists were arrested by Honduran police on Saturday evening, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Washington, D.C. said in a brief statement.The journalists ... Read more...
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Powerful earthquake kills four in Honduras
May 29th, 2009 - 3:01 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa (Honduras), May 29 (EFE) At least four people were killed Thursday in a powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale in northwest Honduras.
Buildings and homes of people were damaged at ... Read more...
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Plane with 1,400 kg of cocaine seized in Honduras
February 23rd, 2009 - 11:22 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Feb 23 (DPA) Honduran police seized a small plane with 1,400 kg of cocaine in the northwest department of Colon, local media reported.
Radio HRN quoted an unnamed officer of the drug ... Read more...
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5 dead, 65 injured in plane crash in Honduras
June 1st, 2008 - 12:01 am ICT by admin
Tegucigalpa ( Honduras ), May 31 (ANI): At least five people died and 65 injured when a jet owned by Central America's TACA airlines slipped across a runway and onto a ... Read more...
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Bus accident kills 27 in Honduras
March 26th, 2008 - 1:16 pm ICT by admin
Tegucigalpa, March 26 (IANS) Twenty-seven people have been killed and 18 injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in western Honduras, EFE news agency reported Wednesday. The incident occurred Tuesday when ... Read more...
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Gunmen in police uniform kill eight in Honduras
March 3rd, 2008 - 2:41 pm ICT by admin
Tegucigalpa (Honduras), March 3 (IANS) At least eight people have been killed when a group of attackers dressed in police uniform opened fire on them at a billiard parlour in northern Honduras, ... Read more...
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