Police chief, guard killed in capital

A top Honduran police commander and his bodyguard were killed by gunmen thought to be linked to drug traffickers smuggling cocaine along the country’s isolated Atlantic coast, authorities said.

Operations chief Rigoberto Aceituno, Honduras’ fourth-highest-ranking policeman, was killed Saturday outside his home in the capital, Tegucigalpa, when gunmen opened fire from a car, said Security Ministry spokesman Miguel Martinez.

Martinez said the attack was thought to be the work of a gang shipping South American cocaine to the United States along Honduras’ Atlantic coast, much of which is a near-impenetrable area of jungle.