Curfews imposed after more than 20 killed in north Honduras

FILE PHOTO: Honduran President Xiomara Castro attends a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang (not pictured) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 13, 2023. JADE GAO/Pool via REUTERS./File Photo

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -The Honduran government announced curfews on Sunday in two northern cities after more than 20 people were killed overnight in separate attacks amid escalating violence in the country.

Heavily armed men opened fire on Saturday night in a billiards hall in a neighborhood in the northern manufacturing city of Choloma, killing 13 people and seriously wounding another, police press person Edgardo Barahona told Reuters.