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洪都拉斯贩毒团伙间发生枪战

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2013-08-07 09:01 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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Seventeen people have been killed in a clash between rival drug gangs in Honduras, chief prosecutor¹ Roberto Ramirez has said.

洪都拉斯两个贩毒团伙之间发生冲突，17人被杀。

The shootout happened in La Mosquitia, a remote region on Honduras' Atlantic coast.

The area is the main transit² route for cocaine³ being transported from South America to the United States.

Honduras has the highest homicide rate in the world, much of it blamed on gang violence and drug traffickers.

Mr Ramirez said that one of those killed was a gang leader from neighbouring Nicaragua - Victor Centeno, known as "El Muco".

Earlier, Honduran Deputy Defence Minister Carlos Funez said the body of the drug lord had been taken across the border by members of his gang.

Navy and army personnel have been despatched to the area to investigate the incident.

Mr Funez attributed the clash to a "turf war" between rival criminal organisations.

Nicaraguan and Honduran gangs have been fighting for control of the sparsely⁴ populated Gracias a Dios province, from where they launch speedboats smuggling⁵ cocaine to the United States.

Local authorities said women and children could be among the victims.

More than 3,000 people have been killed in Honduras in the first six months of 2013, according to government figures.

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1 prosecutor
n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人
参考例句：
The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。 The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

2 transit
n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过
参考例句：
His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。 The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

3 cocaine
n.可卡因，古柯碱（用作局部麻醉剂）
参考例句：
That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。 Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。

4 sparsely
adv.稀疏地；稀少地；不足地；贫乏地
参考例句：
Relative to the size, the city is sparsely populated. 与其面积相比，这个城市的人口是稀少的。来自《简明英汉词典》 The ground was sparsely covered with grass. 地面上稀疏地覆盖草丛。来自《简明英汉词典》

5 smuggling
n.走私
参考例句：
Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。 The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

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