Peña Blanca, Cortés
Two women have been found dead in recent hours in a house in the village of La Agüita de Peña Blanca, Cortés, in northern Honduras.
The victims were identified as Ada Esperanza Sánchez (54) and Glenda Bermudez (44).
The two women had arrived from Tegucigalpa, Ada Esperanza had taken care of the house for a cousin who has been in the United States since December last year, and Glenda came to clean the house.
The violent act has been recorded since Sunday evening, according to initial investigations, and they were found this Monday.
Armed men were known to break into the house and shoot them. One of them was in the bathroom and the other in bed.
National Police officers arrived on the scene and forensic doctors removed the bodies 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 murdered in Honduras between January and February as a result of sexist violence.
In Honduras, a woman dies violently every 36 hours, according to the Violence Observatory of the (OV-Unah).
More than 60% of victims die from firearms and 50.9% of violent deaths of women occur on public roads.
Most women who die like this violent in Honduras They are less than 30 years old, and the departments of Francisco Morazán and Cortés are the regions with the highest rates of these murders.
Organized crime is responsible for 70% of violent deaths among women in Honduras, where more than 90% of cases go unpunished, according to the Non-Governmental Center for Women’s Studies (CDM).