Three Nicaraguans, including a seven-year-old girl, who were traveling aboard a motorcycle were shot to death when they were traveling through the Coquital town of Los Chiles, in Alajuela, Costa Rica.
The Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) of Costa Rica, according to local media reports, detailed that the victims were the driver of the motorcycle, a 46-year-old Nicaraguan, surnamed Sovalbarro, who was traveling in the company of a woman also of Nicaraguan origin. , 27 years old and surnamed Guzmán, who in turn had his 7-year-old daughter with him.
Guzmán and Sovalbarro, according to the OIJ, died at the scene, while the minor died hours later in the local hospital to which she was transferred after being hit by the gunshots.
The driver of the motorcycle, according to the initial investigations of the Costa Rican authorities, is originally from El Castillo, Río San Juan, and was apparently dedicated to crossing other Nicaraguans into the interior of Costa Rica.
The attack, according to the first hypotheses revealed by the investigations, was directed at the driver of the motorcycle, so the death of the woman and her daughter would have been “collateral damage.”
The Costa Rican authorities have not yet reported the arrest of any suspect or suspects of committing the triple homicide of the Nicaraguans.
Deaths of Nicaraguan migrants increased in the last year. In 2024, according to the Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC), a total of 201 Pinolero migrants died in Mexico and the United States.
The main cause of the deaths of these migrants, according to the organization’s annual report, were traffic accidents, with 59 deaths on the roads, but it also documented deaths from heart attacks (52), murders (29), and cancer (11). , stroke (10), covid-19 and others (5).
