Seventeen youths are dead after armed men stormed a shoe factory and shot them at point blank range in the embattled city of San Pedro Sula, in the northern part of Honduras, AFP agency is reporting. The dead appear to be youths. Authorities said the massacre is the result of a dispute between the two deadly gangs operating in Honduras, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the Barrio 18.
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