Us Embassy Warns Americans In Central American Country Of Mass Shooting Threat

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Americans successful Honduras were being warned astir a imaginable wide shooting connected Tuesday and connected May 16 astatine respective locations successful nan Central American nation's capital, Tegucigalpa.

The U.S. Embassy issued a information alert connected Tuesday, saying it had received accusation astir a wide shooting threat for Tuesday and adjacent week.

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Slums are viewed successful nan superior metropolis of Tegucigalpa connected July 19, 2012 successful Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduras now has nan highest per capita execution complaint successful nan world and its superior city, Tegucigalpa, is plagued by violence, poverty, homelessness and intersexual assaults. With an estimated 80% of nan cocaine entering nan United States now being trans-shipped done Honduras, nan unit connected nan streets is simply a spillover from nan ramped emergence successful narco-trafficking. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Slums are viewed successful nan superior metropolis of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (2012 Getty Images)

"The U.S. Embassy successful Honduras has received accusation of a threat of a wide shooting to return spot today, May 6, successful Tegucigalpa," nan alert states. "The root besides threatened specified an arena connected May 16. The 3 target locations mentioned are nan Elliot Dover Christian School successful Tegucigalpa, nan Centro Civico successful Tegucigalpa, and an unnamed promenade successful Tegucigalpa."

The Elliot Dover Christian School is simply a bilingual school successful nan superior and nan Centro Civico is simply a authorities analyzable of agency towers.

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View of nan US embassy building successful Tegucigalpa,

The U.S. Embassy successful Tegucigalpa, Honduras, connected Feb. 6, 2025. (Getty Images)

U.S. Embassy unit were warned to debar nan locations. The embassy said nan threat didn't specifically look to target U.S. citizens.

Honduran authorities are investigating.

Currently, nan State Department urges Americans to reconsider walking to nan country, citing precocious levels of crime.

Police patrol nan streets of a pack ridden vicinity connected July 20, 2012 successful Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduras now has nan highest per capita execution complaint successful nan world and its superior city, Tegucigalpa, is plagued by violence, poverty, homelessness and intersexual assaults. With an estimated 80% of nan cocaine entering nan United States now being trans-shipped done Honduras, nan unit connected nan streets is simply a spillover from nan ramped emergence successful narco-trafficking. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Police patrol nan streets of a gang-ridden vicinity successful Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The U.S. Embassy connected Tuesday warned Americans successful nan state astir wide shooting threats. (Getty Images/File)

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"Violent crime, specified arsenic homicide, equipped robbery, and kidnapping, remains common," a recreation advisory states. "Violent pack activity, specified arsenic extortion, convulsive thoroughfare crime, rape, narcotics, and quality trafficking, is widespread. Local authorities whitethorn deficiency capable resources to respond efficaciously to superior crime incidents."

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