Honduras sets curfew after drug-related shooting leaves 11 dead: minister

President Xiomara Castro declared a curfew in a region of Honduras where suspected hitmen hired by drug traffickers shot and killed 11 people in a billiard hall, security minister Gustavo Sanchez announces.

The mass shooting took place in Choloma, a town near San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in this country plagued by poverty, gang violence and drug trafficking. Witnesses posted video online of bloodied bodies at the pool hall, where people were celebrating a birthday party.

Gunmen entered and opened fire, the witnesses said.Ten men and a woman were killed, said a spokesman for the National Police.The curfew in Choloma and San Pedro Sula will be in effect starting Sunday from 9 pm starting to 4 am.
Castro said she was acting after "the brutal and ruthless terrorist attack by hired killers trained and directed by drug lords"in a troubled area called the Sula Valley.