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Tegucigalpa - 29 January 2015
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1. Various of police cordoning off crime scene in San Pablo neighbourhood where a man was shot dead
2. Body covered with sheet on pavement
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Tegucigalpa - 28 January2015
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3. Relatives of another man shot dead crying near crime scene in front of cemetery
4. Forensic experts examining body
5. Experts moving body inside vehicle
6. People walking by Tegucigalpa's municipal funeral home
7. Yadir Folofo, whose brother was killed a few days earlier, giving documents to funeral home worker
8. Folofo following worker to her desk
9. Various of Folofo and funeral home worker filling out documents
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nilvia Castillo, Manager at Tegucigalpa's municipal mortuary:
"We get information on whether in fact the municipality labels the neighbourhood (of a client) as a vulnerable area, made up of people of limited means."
11. Mourner praying during wake for Yadir Folofo' brother, Yani
12. Mourner laying flowers on top of coffin
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yadir Folofo, brother of man recently killed:
"My brother is there, in a coffin. There's nothing I can do about it. I was told that he killed himself, but it's not true, he did not kill himself. The forensic doctor said his throat was slit, in other words that this was done to him. The forensic doctor told me that was not a suicide, but a homicide."
14. Relatives praying at wake
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yadir Folofo, brother of man recently killed:
"They (funeral home staff) provided us with this space, which is really big. Before we (people living in poor areas of Honduras) didn't have those things. We didn't know how to have a wake for a loved one. They provide you with a coffin, coffee."
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Tegucigalpa - 29 January 2015
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16. Folofo, relatives and funeral home staff carrying coffin after wake to transport it to municipal cemetery
17. Folofo and relatives loading coffin onto pick-up truck
18. Folofo and funeral home worker sitting in back of pick-up truck
19. Relatives carrying coffin inside municipal cemetery
20. Relatives praying by coffin
21. Folofo kissing coffin; bouquet of flowers in foreground
22. Relatives and cemetery workers carrying coffin to grave
23. Cemetery workers lowering coffin into the grave with ropes
24. Various of relatives placing flowers on top of the grave
Thousands of people are murdered every year on the streets of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.
One of Latin America's poorest cities, Tegucigalpa has grown so dangerous that its streets are empty after sunset.
Honduras is considered the world's most dangerous country, with 90 to 95 murders per 100-thousand people, according to the United Nations.
The growing demand for coffins has pushed local authorities and politicians to start programmes giving them away for free.
Nilvia Castillo, manager at Tegucigalpa's municipal mortuary, locally known as 'The People's Mortuary', said there were several criteria for a family to qualify.
The neighbourhood has to be declared a "vulnerable area, made up of people of limited means" by the government, she said.
The family of 34-year-old Yani Folofo applied to receive a coffin days after he was killed in the streets of the capital.
They had to provide a death certificate, as without one morgues are prohibited from releasing a body and instead bury it in a mass grave.
In the space of two days, Folofo's brother, Yadir, claimed Yani's body from the city's judicial morgue, held a wake and finally a burial at the municipal cemetery, in land provided by local authorities.
It was part of a programme started by former Tegucigalpa mayor Ricardo Alvarez, now Honduras' first vice president, in 2006 as a political promise.
The city's new mayor has kept the programme, but has changed the name from the People's Mortuary to just municipal mortuary.
