- Title: HONDURAS: ELEVEN PEOPLE KILLED IN ARMED ATTACKS ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT BUSES.
- Date: 1st September 2003
- Summary: (W8) SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS (AUGUST 31, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: MEDIA AND POLICE STANDING AROUND BUS 0.04 2. GV/MV/CU: VICTIMS BODIES IN AND AROUND BUS (6 SHOTS) 0.49 3. GV/TRACK: NURSES BRINGING SHOOTING VICTIM INTO EMERGENCY ROOM 1.08 4. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) POLICE OFFICER, JOSE TORRES, SAYING: "There are some
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- Location: SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS
- Country: Honduras
- Reuters ID: LVA2UHXNQLCLNHY7V6C5NZ13YEOE
- Story Text: At least 11 people killed during attacks on public
transport buses.
As many as 11 people were killed on Saturday
(August 30) in armed attacks on two public transport buses
in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.
Another 17 people were wounded, many of them seriously,
hospital officials said.
Security officials said the attacks might have been the
work of youth gangs.
"There are some witnesses who said they saw people with
the characteristics similar to gang members but that needs
to be confirmed," said police officer Jose Torres.
He said the assailants killed another person as they
fled the scene, while the rest of the victims died in a
drive-by shooting of a bus in another district of the
northern city, the country's second largest.
Armando Calidonio, the deputy security minister, said
that the killings were probably carried out by youth gangs
known as "maras" who are responsible for a recent wave of
violence in the poor Central American nation.
"We are not going to permit this to continue to happen.
The people responsible for this will have to pay the
consequences," he said.
He said the attacks could be an effort by gang members
to show they are still active despite a nationwide police
crackdown.
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