At least three people were killed and a dozen injured, including three players, in the serious disturbances recorded this Saturday in Tegucigalpa after the attack on the Motagua team bus.

The event occurred before the planned meeting between said team and Olympia, corresponding to the fifth day of the Apertura tournament, which was suspended.

Lifeguards from the Honduran Red Cross confirmed to journalists that three people died when they were transferred to the Hospital School, where at least a dozen injured were admitted.

The deceased have been identified by the media as Steven Martínez, Carlos Alvarado and Jefferson Banegas, aged between 20 and 27 years.

The incident took place half an hour before the classic capital between Olympia and Motagua, when the second bus was allegedly attacked by fans of the first with stones and glass bottles, which caused a pitched battle both outside and inside the National Stadium of Tegucigalpa

In the attack were injured by glass fragments the Paraguayan defender Roberto Moreira, the Argentine goalkeeper Jonathan Rougier and the Honduran sideman Emilio Izaguirre were injured, all of the Motagua, which has the coach of the Argentine-Honduran Diego Vásquez.

The 'eagles' of Motagua will play on August 22 against Nicaragua FC for the Concacaf League.

The three players were transferred to a clinic, where they receive medical attention, said the Honduran club without delving into the seriousness of their injuries.

Nine other people who were injured, some of them seriously, have been transferred by lifeguards from the Honduran Red Cross to the School Hospital.

Olimpia and Motagua fans faced off the stadium against the police, who used tear gas to disperse them, which affected many people.

The National Football League of Honduras reported that the game "is suspended to safeguard the integrity and safety of fans, teams, technical bodies, authorities and personnel in general."

The Honduran club indicated that the attack is "reprehensible and regrettable" and requested that the action, allegedly of an ultra group, be "severely sanctioned by the corresponding authorities."

The Honduran Minister of Communications, María Andrea Matamoros, lamented the incident and said that it is "the responsibility of everyone, sports journalists, media and fans to call for calm and respect for the authorities."

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