Honduras investigates police in case of murdered student
BY MARLON GONZÁLEZ
yesterday
TEGUCIGALPA, Hondruas (AP) — Relatives buried the body Wednesday of a 26-year-old Honduran nursing student who died in a police cell hours after she was arrested for violating the pandemic curfew. The National Police initially suggested it had been a suicide, but authorities are now investigating it as a murder.
Keyla Patricia Martínez Rodríguez, a resident of the capital, had traveled to the western Honduras city of La Esperanza with a doctor friend to visit relatives. On Saturday night, police say she and the doctor were arrested for disturbing the peace and violating curfew. They were taken to the police station and placed in separate cells.
Honduras’ public safety ministry sent a statement saying that Martínez had been found in the cell with signs of suicide and taken to a health center where she was pronounced dead. But on Sunday the body was autopsied in Tegucigalpa and the government’s forensic medicine agency concluded the cause of death was strangulation. Government prosecutors announced they were investigating it as a murder.
On Wednesday, Martínez’s mother, Norma Rodríguez, demanded justice and called for assistance from international organizations, “because sadly, in our country you can’t trust anyone,” she told local news outlets.
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https://apnews.com/article/tegucigalpa-honduras-health-coronavirus-pandemic-arrests-746174e9327b4fc22ae820e64e2ff4d8
Keyla Patricia Martínez Rodríguez
Rest in Peace
