THE death of a 26-year-old nursing student in police custody has caused outrage in Honduras.
Police arrested Keyla Martínez on Saturday night for allegedly being drunk and breaching the night-time curfew in place to curb the pandemic.
According to police report, she was found “trying to take her own life” by an officer on a routine round later that night. The officer said she was still alive but doctors declared her dead on arrival at the hospital.
Police said it was suicide but forensic tests suggested she was killed.
Martínez’s death in custody triggered a number of protests when it was first reported. Outrage has grown since the preliminary post-mortem examination concluded that there were strong indications that her death was “homicide”.(BBC)
