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Up to 17 People Dead in Honduras After Drug Gang Shootout
7 August 2013
InSight Crime (Bogota)
Up to 17 people died in a shootout in an isolated drug trafficking hub along Honduras' Mosquitia coast in a clash over 700 kilos of cocaine involving Honduran, Nicaraguan, and Mexican gangs.
While the Honduran Ministry of Defense announced they had confirmed the death of four alleged drug traffickers, prosecutors said they had unofficial information showing a total of 17 deaths, among them women and children, reported Proceso Digital.
According to the military,... (GunPolicy.org)