Guatemala City: A Guatemala judge handed down prison terms of up to 828 years for six drug traffickers convicted of killing a busload of foreigners in 2008 before setting the bodies on fire.
The traffickers stopped the bus, which entered Guatemala from Nicaragua to the south, because they thought it was carrying drugs.
They searched it and found none, then shot and killed all 16 people aboard -- 15 Nicaraguans and one Dutch citizen -- then burned the victims' bodies on an estate owned by one of those convicted.
Three other suspects got as many as 828 years as other crimes were included in the charge sheet against them, according to the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, a UN body.
During the trial Montiel's wife, Sara Cruz, drew a sentence of six years in prison for criminal association.
The traffickers stopped the bus, which entered Guatemala from Nicaragua to the south, because they thought it was carrying drugs.
They searched it and found none, then shot and killed all 16 people aboard -- 15 Nicaraguans and one Dutch citizen -- then burned the victims' bodies on an estate owned by one of those convicted.
Three other suspects got as many as 828 years as other crimes were included in the charge sheet against them, according to the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, a UN body.
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During the trial Montiel's wife, Sara Cruz, drew a sentence of six years in prison for criminal association.
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