InSight Crime: Buses Hijacked By Robbers In Honduras

Written by Miriam Wells
Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Criminals in Honduras have reportedly begun kidnapping entire buses full of passengers in order to rob them, reminiscent of attacks carried out by Colombian rebels and Mexican cartels and an illustration of the lawlessness in much of the country.

Buses traveling in the metropolitan area of capital city Tegucigalpa have been forcibly diverted from their routes and passengers robbed at gunpoint, victims told newspaper La Tribuna.

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