Relatives react after nine people were riddled with bullets outside the morgue, in San Pedro Sula, 240 km north of Tegucigalpa on August 19, 2014.
Hooded assailants opened fire on a clutch of mourners outside a morgue in northern Honduras Tuesday, killing eight people and wounding four others, authorities said.
Most of the victims were members of a family who had come to the morgue in San Pedro Sula to retrieve the body of a man gunned down the day before, they said.
In the grip of soaring gang and drug violence, Honduras has the world's highest murder rate -- 79 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to monitors at the National University.
San Pedro Sula coroner Hector Hernandez said the gunmen pulled up in two vehicles and opened fire on a group of people waiting outside to take possession of the body of Jose Luis Terrero.
Terrero was killed on Monday in Puerto Cortes, 300 kilometers (180 miles) north of Tegucigalpa. San Pedro Sula, Honduras' second largest city, is 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of the capital.