{"id":66657,"date":"2014-11-19T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=66657"},"modified":"2014-11-19T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T14:53:06","slug":"honduras-beauty-queen-maria-jose-alvarado-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=66657","title":{"rendered":"Honduras beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Two men have been arrested after Honduras beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado, 19, and her sister were found dead nearly a week after disappearing.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Alvarado and her sister Sofia Trinidad, 23, vanished on Thursday after being seen leaving a party near the northern city of Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>She had been due to compete in the upcoming Miss World contest in London.<\/p>\n<p>Plutarco Ruiz, said to be the boyfriend of Ms Trinidad, was detained along with another man, Aris Maldonado.<\/p>\n<p>The two women&#8217;s bodies were found in Cablotales village, near the River Aguagua, National Bureau of Criminal Investigation chief Leandro Osorio said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/79129000\/jpg\/_79129349_024785402-1.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers (in bullet-proof jackets) escort Plutarco Ruiz in Santa Barbara, Honduras, 18 November\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/>Police officers in bullet-proof jackets escorted Plutarco Ruiz (second from left ) after his arrest<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/79129000\/jpg\/_79129351_024785210-1.jpg\" alt=\"Aris Valentin Maldonado is escorted by police in Santa Barbara, Honduras, 18 November\" width=\"624\" height=\"411\" \/>Police detained Aris Maldonado in Santa Barbara<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/79129000\/jpg\/_79129353_024785240-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rally in Santa Barbara, Honduras, 18 November\" width=\"624\" height=\"411\" \/>Some had assumed Miss Alvarado was abducted and demonstrated in Santa Barbara on Tuesday in support of her release<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Weapons and a car were seized, he added, and a &#8220;protected witness&#8221; has provided valuable information.<\/p>\n<p>The two women were last seen alive in a car without a licence plate as they left a birthday party on 13 November.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters news agency, the two men arrested are believed to be the last people to have seen the young women before they disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both are being questioned as part of the investigation into the disappearance of [Ms Alvarado] and her sister,&#8221; police spokesman Jose Coello said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope to establish what role they may have played.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a UN report, Honduras has the world&#8217;s highest homicide rate, with 90.4 people murdered per 100,000 of the population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been arrested after Honduras beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado, 19, and her sister were found dead nearly a week after disappearing. Ms Alvarado and her sister Sofia Trinidad, 23, vanished on Thursday after being seen leaving a party near the northern city of Santa Barbara. 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