Two members of the LGBTI community were killed in the last week in El Salvador, in cases considered as "hate crimes" towards that population, a humanitarian organization denounced on Monday.
On November 16 in San Francisco Menéndez, 124 kms southwest of San Salvador, Manuel Pineda, a 44-year-old homosexual, was found murdered, the organization Comcavis-Trans revealed .
A day later, in the city of San Vicente, 56 km east of the capital, Oscar Caáenguez, also a member of the LGBTI community, was killed, said the entity.
"It is unfortunate deaths that we are denouncing, they are clearly hate crimes," said Bianka Rodríguez, president of Comcavis-Trans, an organization that works to defend the human rights of the community of sexual diversity.
Police have said they have no clues as to the possible perpetrators of the crimes.
"These cases are being investigated, but there is no more information at the moment," a police spokesman who requested anonymity told AFP.
On November 9, Jade Camila Díaz, a 27-year-old transgender woman who was reported missing in the eastern department of Morazán was murdered .
Shortly before, on October 27, the transgender Anahy Miranda Rivas was killed , attacked by strangers on a street in San Salvador.
According to Rodríguez, who last September received the Nansen 2019 award granted by UNHCR, October and November have been "the most violent months" for the LGBTI community in the country.
According to Comcavis Trans, more than 600 murders of people from the LGBTI community have been registered since 1993 in El Salvador.
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