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TEGUCIGALPA – A small boat carrying 23 Cubans attempting to reach the United States went off course and landed on Honduras’ Caribbean coast, officials said Wednesday.

The boat arrived Tuesday in Truji-llo, 400 kilometers (250 miles) northeast of Tegucigalpa, the capital. It left Santa Cruz, in southern Cuba, on Feb. 2.
Police said the 19 men and four women aboard the 7.6-meter (25-foot) boat ran out of gas and landed in Honduras.

“We were hoping to arrive in the United States, but the rains and strong winds sent us to Honduras,” refugee Maritza González told Channel 5 television. “We were on the high seas – wet, lost and without food or fuel.”

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Honduran authorities found Saturday paper and chemicals for counterfeiting money at the hotel of an Irani who was shot to death in La Esperanza in the western province of Intibuca, police said.

The local police commissioner, Guido Gomez Chavez, told reporters that officers had searched the mountainside hotel Cabanas Los Pinos where the Irani owner, Branni Medy Mohammed, 52, and his watchman, Juan Dominguez, were shot dead Friday.

The Honduran press said Saturday that the Irani, a naturalized U.S. citizen, built his mountain hotel mostly with wood he cut himself.

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