Sources: BBC
Thirteen people, including popular Garifuna musician Aurelio Martínez, are killed and five others are rescued when an Aerolínea Lanhsa Jetstream 41 crashes into the Caribbean Sea shortly after takeoff from Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport in Roatán, Bay Islands Department, Honduras. 2025-03-17
The death toll from the storms and heavy rains in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras increases to 30 people, including at least six children. 2024-06-22
At least 41 inmates are killed and seven others are injured during a riot at a women's prison in Támara, near Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 2023-06-20
Mexican Army troops kill 12 drug cartel gunmen in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In separate incidents, police kill five attackers in Torreón, Coahuila, and five police officers are shot dead in Guanajuato. 2020-07-3
A riot at a maximum security prison in El Porvenir, Atlántida, Honduras leaves at least 16 inmates dead, according to Honduran authorities. The riot comes just two days after another riot killed 18 inmates at a prison in the town of Tela. 2019-12-22
U.S. President Donald Trump offers Mexico military support to help defeat drug cartels, should his counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador request help, after nine American Mexican Mormon fundamentalists, including six children, are killed in an ambush by suspected cartel members in Sonora, northern Mexico. 2019-11-5
Honduras declares a state of emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever kills 16 people and sickens 12,000. 2013-07-30
A Honduras radio journalist is kidnapped days after another journalist is killed. 2012-05-9
Senior prison officials are suspended and an investigation is opened into the cause of a deadly prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras, in which over 350 inmates died. 2012-02-16
A journalist, Luz Marina Paz Villalobos, is killed in Honduras becoming the 17th journalist shot in the past two years. 2011-12-6