Honduras News - Daily News about Honduras

In Tegucigalpa a fire consumed seven apartments in San Miguel a district from this city where the occupants lost all their belongings because they where not around when the fire started informed the fire department.

The fire started at around 11:30 Wednesday morning near the police station to where four fire units and 16 firemen made their way to, thanks to their immediate intervention avoided that the flames propagated to other houses.

According to neighbors the fire started in one of the apartments and was shortly propagated with greater intensity to the other apartments after a tank of LPG gas exploded. The firemen used more than six thousand gallons of water in order to control the flames.

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The local Police received notice that several people were making public scandal during work hours at a gas station. After receiving the phone call at 12 noon, one of the Police units and news reporters made their way to the place where the scandal was taking place.

To the surprise of Police and news reporters, the people making the scandal at the gas station where employees from Hondutel in their uniform.
The employees reacted surprised at the sudden arrival of the Police.

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The new manager of Hondutel, Jorge Rosa will start doing intense audits starting this Monday by orders from the President of the Republic, Manuel Zelaya.

The president confirmed the designation of the minister of Commerce and Industries Jorge Rosa as the temporary manager of Hondutel, he also announced that in January 2008 he will name the official manager that will lead the telecommunication company until the end of his administration.

The functions of the previous manager Marcelo Chimirri officially ended on December 1st and the responsibilities will be transferred to the temporary manager for the stage of transition, cleaning and audit that are very necessary at this point.

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