The funeral has taken place in Honduras of two murdered sisters, one of them a beauty queen due to compete in the Miss World pageant.<br /><br />On the same day the boyfriend of her sister, who police believe was the killer, was formally charged. <br /><br />María José Alvarado, who was 19, and her 23-year-old sister Sofia were last seen leaving a party last week.<br /><br />Police say their bodies were found buried near a river in the mountainous Santa Barbara region in the west of the country.<br /><br />It’s thought that Sofia’s boyfriend Plutarco Ruiz shot her in a fit of jealousy after seeing her dancing with someone else, before turning the gun on her elder sister.<br /><br />Miss Honduras had been due to fly to London to take part in Miss World next month.<br /><br />The killings have shocked the poor Central American country, which has the highest murder rate in the world with 90.4 murders per 100,000 inhabitants – almost twice that of nearby countries with high crime such as Venezuela and El Salvador.<br /><br />Honduras is also riven by drugs-related violence, with rival cartels engaged in transporting cocaine to the United States.
