Seventeen killed in drug gang fight in Honduras -officials


  • World
  • Wednesday, 07 Aug 2013

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - At least 17 people died in a battle between drug gangs over a cocaine shipment in the isolated Mosquito Coast of Honduras, government officials said on Tuesday.

A Nicaraguan who allegedly led a local drug gang was among the dead, said prosecutor Roberto Ramirez, and some of the other victims may also have been foreigners.

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