El Salvador woke up to tragedy Monday 21th morning, when attacks late Sunday night left 17 people dead, 14 of which died in a public bus that was brutally lit on fire while the passengers were trapped inside.
Agencia EFE
A spokesman of the General District Attorney's Office confirmed 14 burned bodies that were recovered early Monday morning from the bus that was set on fire in the colony Mejicanos, in the northern area of San Salvador.
Security officials referred to the attacks as “savage” and acts of terrorism.
The New Herald reported that, The Salvadorian Minister of Defense, Manuel Melgar, told journalists that the bus had been lit on fire at the same time that the police were pursuing another attack on a public transportation vehicle, where two children and a man were shot to death.
“It was a planned attack. This is not a common crime, but rather a true act of terrorism.” Stated Melgar.
The president of the Federation of Transport Entrepreneurs Salvadoran Unions (Fecoatrans), Catalino Miranda, condemned the attacks on the two buses, stating that they were “acts of terrorism,” and treaded closely to being “one step away from genocide.”
The atrocity of such planned killings directed at public transportation comes at a time when the country is already in a spiral of violence that currently fetches between 11 and 13 homicides a day. The crimes, believed to come mostly from gang activity, are reaching such extremes that even authorities are wondering at what point the violence could be brought to end.
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