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Firefighters battled a major blaze at a tire shop in Comayagüela's Zonal Belén sector on September 1, producing a towering plume of black smoke visible across Tegucigalpa as crews worked to prevent the fire from spreading to nearby businesses.

Military Police arrested a suspected MS-13 member in the Smith neighborhood of Comayagüela on suspicion of drug trafficking, seizing cocaine, crack, marijuana, and cash.

Military police arrested a suspected drug distributor in the La Rosa neighborhood of Comayagüela and seized nine wraps of cocaine, twenty of crack cocaine, and two of marijuana, along with a mobile phone for investigation.

Moisés Girón was fatally shot in front of his house in the Ramón Amaya Amador neighborhood of Comayagüela; police are investigating the killing.

A man identified as Ernesto Vaca was killed after being struck by a motorcycle on a main street in the Ramón Amaya neighborhood of Comayagüela, Tegucigalpa.

A woman, appearing to be about 35 years old and bearing stab wounds to the neck, was found dead on a street in Perpetuo Socorro, Comayagüela, on the morning of June 20; she remains unidentified pending forensic examination.

Esly Michell García Pacheco, 35, a woman using crutches, was shot ten times in a Comayagüela alley on June 8; her death underscores the persistence of femicide and near-total impunity in Honduras, where rights groups report a 95 percent rate of unresolved killings of women.