July 14, 2022, 7:10 PM
July 14, 2022, 7:10 PM
A son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo was riddled with bullets this Thursday morning along with three other people when they left a nightclub in Tegucigalpa, reported the former president and the authorities.
Heavily armed strangers “took the young people out of two cars”, including Said Lobo, 23, and murdered them, in an episode that “was practically like an operation” like those carried out by the police, the former president told local media .
The Security Minister, Ramón Sabillón, expressed his “condolences to the families, especially to former President Lobo, and to the other Hondurans who lost their lives” in the multiple crime.
According to the report of the police authorities, the four young people left in two vehicles from the underground parking lot of a building where the nightclub operates.
In videos broadcast by the HCH television channel, it is observed that unknown individuals covered with balaclavas intercept a black vehicle at the exit of the building’s parking lot and get out with long weapons.
When the driver of one of the vehicles pays for parking through the window, the hooded men lower him and his companion and put them against the wall pointing at them. It is not seen when they are shot.
Honduras registers 20 massacres in 2022
The bodies were left lying on the floor. One of the assailants falls wounded and a buddy helps him to take him away. Former President Lobo said that one of his son’s motorcyclists managed to shoot the assailants.
“To my other son [Luis] nothing happened to him because he was driving in another car,” he added.
Another of the dead is the nephew of the wife of retired general Romeo Vásquez, who led the coup against former President Manuel Zelaya in 2009.
Vásquez said that the four young people were friends who lived in the department of Olancho (east) and moved to Tegucigalpa.
The young people arrived in the capital to attend a concert at the nightclub, according to local press reports.
According to the president of the non-governmental Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (Codeh), Hugo Maldonado, 111 people have lost their lives in 20 massacres so far this year in Honduras.
Former President Lobo has another of his children, Fabio, a prisoner sentenced to 24 years in prison for drug trafficking in the United States and his wife, Rosa Bonilla, is also imprisoned in a women’s prison near Tegucigalpa, convicted of corruption when she served as the first lady.
