Inside San Pedro Sula – The Most Violent City In The World -- The Guardian
City in Honduras has a murder rate of 173 per 100,000 residents, reportedly the highest in the world outside a war zone.
No matter the time of day or night, morticians stand guard by the gate of the city morgue, waiting for the next body to be released so they can offer their services to grieving families. In the most violent city in the most violent country in the world, they never have to wait for long.
"Satan himself lives here in San Pedro," says one nervous mortician who asks to be identified only as Lucas. "People here kill people like they're nothing more than chickens."
Last year, an average of 20 people were murdered every day in Honduras, a country of just 8 million inhabitants, according to the Violence Observatory at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (NAUH). That's a murder rate of 85.5 per 100,000 residents, compared with 56 in Venezuela, 4.78 in the US and 1.2 in the UK.
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My Comment: These murder rates are approaching what you expect to see in a war zone like Aleppo, Kabul, etc..
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