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Murderous Year in El Salvador
About 593 homicides have been
registered in El Salvador in the
two first months of the year,
according to figures revealed
Sunday by the Legal Medicine
Institute, the Attorney s office
and the National Civil Police
(PNC).
Data from the three entities
reported that murders have
increased by 322 in January and
271 in February.
In statements to press,
institutional spokespeople
stated that about 3,928 violent
deaths have been reported by
late 2006, for a total of 10.8
crimes per day.
Criminal rate in 2006 reached
54.7 percent per 100,000
inhabitants, placing the Central
American nation as first in
murders, followed by Honduras,
Guatemala and Colombia.
According to the PNC, 80 percent
of those homicides were
perpetrated with firearms in a
country where there are 500,000.
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