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Judi Lynn

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Tue Jun 21, 2016, 05:39 PM Jun 2016

Mayor suspected of massacre arrested in Honduras

Mayor suspected of massacre arrested in Honduras
By AFP 12 mins ago .

A mayor in Honduras suspected of involvement in a massacre of five people was arrested on Tuesday and is being held in the capital pending an investigation, police said.

Victor Meza, who runs the town of Reitoca, 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital Tegucigalpa, was believed to lead a gang that carried out the killings that occurred last Sunday, detective service chief Jose Ponce told a news conference.

On that day, unidentified gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying members of a local church, killing one of the occupants and wounding another.

When other people tried to transfer the body and the wounded person to hospital, another attack was mounted that killed four people.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/mayor-suspected-of-massacre-arrested-in-honduras/article/468236#ixzz4CFhPnhKl

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