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Yamileth Bonilla Avilés, a 20-to-22-year-old mother of two and social media content creator from Nueva Arcadia, Copán, was killed in an armed attack early Sunday in La Entrada as she traveled by motorcycle.

Investigative reporting traces how the Mexican cartel Los Zetas expanded control over cocaine corridors from South America through Central America to Mexico, including routes through Honduras, after eliminating a Guatemalan rival clan in 2008 and directly confronting Honduran police in Copán in 2011.

A 10-year-old boy became the third confirmed fatality from an explosion Wednesday at an informal fireworks workshop in Nueva Arcadia, Copán, where a woman and an 8-year-old girl also died; a 4-year-old with severe burns was airlifted to Tegucigalpa.

A child was struck by a pickup truck while running out of a store near a school in Santa Rita, Copán; security cameras captured the collision, but the child suffered only minor injuries and shock from the incident.