Fatal Incident

Alfonzo Maldonado died from injuries sustained in a pitbull attack in the Hato de Enmedio neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, authorities confirmed.

Gerson Aparicio, 25, was killed when he fell beneath a tractor during road-paving work on the highway between Tegucigalpa and Lepaterique in Francisco Morazán.

Six members of a family, five of them children, died in a house fire in an impoverished neighborhood of San Pedro Sula on Wednesday; the cause remains under investigation.