Weekly Report - 26 November 2015 (WR-15-47)

HONDURAS | 15 killed in two massacres. Honduran police reported that 15 people had been murdered in two separate attacks in a 12-hour period on 24-25 November. Eight bus drivers were shot in the country’s notoriously violent northern city of San Pedro Sula on Tuesday night, while early the next day seven people were shot dead in the capital, Tegucigalpa. In a press conference at which he broke down in tears, Police Commissioner Leonel Sauceda said that in the attacks in Tegucigalpa six of the victims were taken directly from their homes and shot, while in the San Pedro Sula massacre, six masked assailants shot the bus drivers one by one at a bus terminal.

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