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Drug violence kills 9 in Honduras
Written by Press TV Monday, 12 April 2010 22:13
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.
