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Judi Lynn

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Sun Sep 2, 2018, 06:54 PM Sep 2018

Honduras: Assailants Wearing Police Uniforms Kill 2 Students

Honduras: Assailants Wearing Police Uniforms Kill 2 Students
Published 1 September 2018

The two students were taken to La Montanita where their bodies, blindfolded and hands tied, were later discovered.

Eighteen-year-old Gerson Daniel Meza Medina and 19-year-old Mario Enrique Suarez Gomez, both students at the Honduras Technical Institute (ITH), were detained and presumably executed by men wearing uniforms from Honduras' Technical Agency of Criminal Investigation (ATIC). Video images circulating on social media sites show what appeared to be ATIC agents detaining the two youths from a house in Bella Vista in the district of Comayaguela this week.

They were taken to La Montanita where their bodies, blindfolded and hands tied, were later discovered.

Jorge Galindo, a spokesperson for ATIC, said that it is evident that the uniforms are not real. "We've ruled out that they are ATIC personnel."d

More:
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Honduras-Assailants-Wearing-Police-Uniforms-Kill-2-Students-20180901-0016.html

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