TEGUCIGALPA: Honduras' President Xiomara Castro on Sunday declared a curfew in a region of the Central American nation where suspected hitmen hired by drug traffickers shot and killed 11 people in a billiard hall.

The mass shooting took place in Choloma, a town near San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city in a country plagued by poverty, gang violence and drug trafficking, all of which are fueling a desperate exodus north toward Mexico and, ultimately, the United States.

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