Penya Blanca, Cortés
Two women were found dead in the last hours inside a village house La Agüita de Penya Blanca, Cortés, in the northern part of Honduras.
The victims were identified as Ada Esperança Sánchez (54) i Glenda Bermúdez (44).
The two women had arrived from Tegucigalpa, Ada Esperança had been taking care of the house of a cousin in the United States since last December and Glenda went to clean the house.
The violent incident was recorded, according to initial investigations, since Sunday night and they were found this Monday.
It was learned that gunmen broke into the house and shot them to death. One was in the bathroom and the other in bed.
Officers from the National Police arrived at the scene and forensic doctors carried out the lifting of the corpses to take them to the morgue in San Pedro Sula.
The murder of Ada and Glenda adds to the statistics of the wave of violence against women in Honduras. More than 40 women were killed in Honduras between January and February as a result of gender-based violence.
In Honduras, a woman dies violently every 36 hours, according to the Observatory of Violence of the (OV-UNAH).
More than 60% of victims die from gunshot wounds and 50.9% of violent deaths of women occur on public roads.
Most women die that way violent in Honduras they are less than 30 years old, and the Francisco Morazán and Cortés departments are the regions with the highest rates of these murders.
Organized crime is responsible for 70% of violent deaths of women in Honduras, where more than 90% of cases go unpunished, according to the non-governmental Center for Women’s Studies (CDM).