Honduras' Miss World contestant Maria Jose Alvarado and sister buried
Honduras' Miss World contestant and her sister have been buried, after the latter's boyfriend shot them in a jealous rage when he saw the sister dancing with another man, according to police.
Honduras' Miss World contestant and her sister have been buried, after the latter's boyfriend shot them in a jealous rage when he saw the sister dancing with another man, according to police.
Mourners sobbed as coffins holding the remains of Miss Honduras, 19-year-old Maria Jose Alvarado, and her sister Sofia Trinidad Alvarado, 23, were lowered into the ground at a cemetery in the northwestern town of Santa Barbara.
The violence-plagued Central American nation has been in shock since police found the sisters' bodies buried along the banks of the Aguagual River on Wednesday and accused Sofia's boyfriend Plutarco Ruiz of killing them the night they went missing a week ago.
Maria Jose, who won the Miss Honduras crown in April, had been due to fly to London on Wednesday to compete in the Miss World pageant. At their funeral their mother, Teresa Munoz, bent over Maria Jose's coffin and broke down in tears. Police believe Ruiz, who held a birthday party last Thursday at a resort outside Santa Barbara, flew into a fit of rage when he saw Sofia dancing with another man.
He allegedly shot her in the head and then her beauty queen sister twice in the back.
Police arrested Ruiz and an alleged accomplice, Aris Maldonado, on Tuesday, while the owner of the resort Ventura Diaz and his wife Elizabeth Alvarado were arrested the next day.
Police said they seized a Colt-45 pistol and two vehicles, including a white pick-up truck allegedly used to transport the sisters' bodies about 20km from the resort to the spot where they were buried.
Maria Jose, who turned heads with her gleaming smile and wavy chestnut hair, was in her last year of university at the Northern Polytechnic Institute, where she studied computer science.
She had participated in beauty contests since she was a young girl. She was also known in Honduras for her work as a model on popular TV game show .
