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Two young men riding a motorcycle were shot and killed in the La Pita sector of San Luis, Santa Bárbara; authorities have not yet identified the victims or identified suspects in the attack.

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck Santa Bárbara early Thursday at 4:28 a.m. with a depth of just 1 kilometer near Las Vegas, causing no reported injuries or damage but adding to recent seismic activity in Honduras.

Jesús Renán Guardado, 39, a miner who had worked for a company in El Mochito for 17 years, was shot and killed on a road near Las Vegas, Santa Bárbara on the morning of August 15; his father said the family had no involvement in any disputes.

Armed men intercepted and shot a man identified as Roger Villalta, an engineer, and a child in Atima, Santa Bárbara on July 8; authorities have opened an investigation but have not disclosed a motive.

The Infrastructure Ministry awarded a Mexican construction company, Prodemex, a multimillion-lempira contract to complete the third phase of the Santa Bárbara General Hospital, but no public contract or transparency-registry trace of the award exists, and the project remains halted under a court order.

Carlos Humberto Vivas, 49, and Juan Pablo Vivas, 44, were arrested in Las Vegas, Santa Bárbara, on suspicion of killing their brother José Luis in April 2018 by striking him with an axe and strangling him with a rope, then dismembering and dumping his body in a septic tank.