Friday, 05 March 2010
Soldiers look on at a vehicle carrying ballot boxes on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa November 27, 2009. Honduras chooses a new president on Sunday in an election that may defuse a crisis caused by a coup against President Manuel Zelaya, but the vote is splitting Washington and Latin America. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
IPI Urges Police to Investigate Attack, Prosecute Killers
A TV broadcaster was shot dead in an apparent attack on a fellow journalist in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on Monday 1 March, according to media reports.
Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 24, a journalism student at the University of Honduras, and a former entertainment presenter on the privately-owned Canal 51 TV station, was travelling with fellow journalist Carol Cabrera when their car was fired on 36 times by men in another vehicle on an unlit road.
Cabrera suffered a ...
