Gunmen killed a son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo and three young men early Thursday as they left a nightclub in the country’s capital, authorities confirmed.
According to a security video of the incident that circulated widely through the media.
The attackers, dressed in what appeared to be vests from a police anti-gang squad, covered the men in front of a wall. Then the photographs are cut.
When the attackers fled, it appeared that one of them had been injured and was being loaded into his vehicle.
Lorena Cálix, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General’s Office, showed the death of Lobo Bonilla and retired General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the media that his nephew Luis Zelaya had also been killed.
National Police Director Gustavo Sanchez said the government would not prevent until they discovered the perpetrators of the killings and those who ordered them.
“We are investigating,” Sanchez said, adding that the government was examining “the clothes worn by criminals. “
Honduras’ Deputy Security Minister Julissa Villanueva said the killings were committed by teams of criminals to destabilize the security system, but gave no details.
Honduran President Xiomara Castro expressed solidarity with former President Lobo and his wife Rosa Bonilla, as well as the families of the other victims. “I condemn the death squads that have been operating with impunity for years in Honduras,” he wrote on Twitter. We may not have rest until we dismantle them. “
Bonilla was convicted in March of embezzling more than a million dollars from the public budget while her husband was president. On Thursday, she applied for and received special permission to leave jail so she could attend her son’s funeral.
Another of Porfirio Lobo’s sons, Fabio, was sentenced in the United States in 2017 to 24 years in prison for drug trafficking. Last year, the United States announced that the former president would no longer be allowed to enter the country because he allegedly accepted bribes from drug traffickers in exchange for political favors.
Porfirio Lobo arrived at the scene on Thursday, but police kept him at bay. He told local media that there was a third vehicle, but that only two of them had died and his children’s had been unharmed.
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