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A young man identified as Joel from El Sauce, Comayagua, was swept away by strong currents in a river and found dead two days later in the village of La Joya, El Rosario municipality.

José Ángel Pineda and his daughter Jackelin, 11, drowned in Santa Bárbara on October 3 after heavy rains swelled a stream they were crossing on their way home from a carnival.

Nery Alberto Mejía, a resident of El Salitre in Francisco Morazán, was found dead in the Río El Obispo after being swept away by the current while attempting to cross a stream three days earlier.

The body of Mauricio Colindres, 22, was found in Olancho on July 26, two days after a fishing boat carrying five young men capsized in heavy rain and wind at the Patuca III reservoir; three survived, and a second victim was also recovered.

Javier Rodolfo Chávez, 44, from Villanueva in Cortés, drowned in Lake Yojoa when a sudden storm caused rough waves that swamped the small fishing boat he and friends were in.

Luis Ángel Guifarro Escobar and Mauricio Benítez died when their fishing boat capsized on the Patuca III reservoir in Olancho on July 24 after sudden high winds and heavy rain struck while five young men were aboard.

Francisco, 16, was swept away by the Río Patuca current in Catacamas, Olancho, on Tuesday while attempting to cross on a burro; his body was recovered on Friday after a three-day search as heavy rains from a weather system affected the region.

Two young people disappeared while attempting to cross the Patuca River in Honduras; search efforts are ongoing.

A 15-year-old drowned in the Chamelecón River in Cortés after being warned not to go out, according to Radio HRN.