Honduran Rights Activist, Companion Slain
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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — A gunman riding aboard a motorcycle shot to death a local human rights activist and a politician who were traveling together in a car Thursday evening, police reported Friday.
Police identified the victims as Miguel Angel Pavon, 38, and Moises Landaverde. Pavon was president of a local human rights commission in this important provincial city, 125 north of Tegucigalpa, the nation’s capital. Landaverde was a local leader of the opposition Christian Democratic Party.
Police said that the killer and the motorcycle driver fled without trace after the killing.
Speculation was widespread that Pavon, 38, was the main target. He reportedly was hit by four bullets. He was an alternate deputy in the National Congress, a newspaper columnist and a professor at a local academy.
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