Eight people were killed and four were injured on Tuesday during a shooting that occurred in front of the morgue in San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras.

According to doctors, seven people died instantly, and the eighth on the way to the hospital, and as it became known, most of the victims were relatives of a man killed on Monday night in Puerto Cortes.

The director of forensic services in San Pedro Sula doctor Hector Hernandez said that a group of people stood in front of the morgue, waiting to deliver a body, when as he explained two cars arrived with two people aboard who wore hoods and opened fire.

With 187 homicides per 100,000 thousand inhabitants, Honduras is the most dangerous country in the world except the warring zones in accordance with the Mexican NGO Security, Justice and Peace.