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Drought linked to El Niño has pushed Honduras's disaster agency (COPECO) to place 75 municipalities in the dry corridor under indefinite yellow alert, while 49 remain on green alert and 113 are under monitoring for reduced rainfall across six departments.

Honduras's emergency agency raised drought alerts across 237 of the country's 298 municipalities due to reduced rainfall linked to El Niño, with 75 municipalities in the dry corridor placed under yellow alert indefinitely.

Over 30,000 sacks of food worth 4,000 lempiras (about $154) per household are being distributed across 12 municipalities in Honduras's dry corridor to 15,229 families who lost crops to drought.

Honduras's National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Center forecast two tropical waves entering the country this week—the first on Wednesday affecting the north and west, and the second on Saturday bringing rainfall nationwide with heaviest accumulation in the west, center, and east.

A broad area of low pressure off Central America's coast has a 70% chance of developing into a tropical depression within 48 hours, with heavy rainfall and flash flooding expected across Honduras and neighboring countries over the coming days.

Firefighters and multiple rescue teams are searching for two people, including a woman who arrived early for work, buried when a hillside gave way onto a warehouse and triggered a fire.