Siguatepeque News

Police arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting his ex-partner in Siguatepeque.

Nilson Alberto Lazo, 34, died Thursday afternoon in Aguas del Padre village when the Siguatepeque fire department's rescue attempt came too late after he became buried in soil.

Five years after nursing student Keyla Martínez was killed in police custody, a retrial begins in August after the original conviction for involuntary homicide was overturned due to procedural irregularities; her mother and women's rights groups demand the case be reclassified as aggravated femicide and that the accused police officer face pretrial detention.

A Siguatepeque court began a retrial Thursday against former police officer Jarol Perdomo in the 2021 death of nursing student Keyla Martínez, after the Supreme Court annulled his 2024 conviction for negligent homicide — a charge prosecutors argued should have been aggravated femicide.