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Honduras's capital and surrounding municipalities are under a yellow weather alert for the next 48 hours as emergency agencies coordinate to protect residents from flooding and landslides in high-risk areas.

Emergency response units from Honduras's civil protection agency are working in the Los Cobras and 21 de Octubre neighborhoods of Tegucigalpa to assist residents and monitor conditions after recent heavy rains caused street flooding.

City authorities and disaster officials launched a technical investigation into a hillside collapse on the Tegucigalpa ring road that killed three workers and damaged warehouses, aiming to determine the cause and prevent similar disasters.

Tegucigalpa's municipal emergency committee responded to 101 incidents during a green weather alert, including flooding, fallen trees, drain cleaning, and water distribution to vulnerable neighborhoods.

Copeco is maintaining a 48-hour green alert for the Lago de Yojoa and Tegucigalpa areas as a surface trough brings weak to moderate rain and showers across most of Honduras, with risks of river flooding, landslides, and falling trees in vulnerable areas.

Honduras's disaster agency extended a 48-hour green alert for the Central District and Lake Yojoa areas due to a weather system bringing moderate rainfall and lightning, and warned residents to avoid swollen rivers and seek shelter during electrical storms.

Tegucigalpa's mayor coordinated the deployment of more than 20 first-response teams to strategic points across the capital ahead of forecast heavy rain this weekend to accelerate emergency care in vulnerable neighborhoods.

Honduras's disaster agency Copeco, backed by Israeli emergency specialists from Magen David Adom, ran a multi-agency mass-casualty simulation in Tegucigalpa testing triage, evacuation, and inter-institutional coordination across firefighters, the Red Cross, military, and hospitals.