A Filipino crew member of a cruise ship is reported to have been murdered during a call into the Honduran resort island of Roatán in the Caribbean.
The man, reportedly working on Norwegian Cruise Line ship Norwegian Pearl, was shot on Sunday.
The Filipino victim was identified as 27-year-old Gavan Yaycob, the Honduran Tourism Institute said.
The institute did not identify the ship or detail the circumstances surrounding the murder.
“This action weakens whatever effort the government could make to promote tourism and to grow the industry in this country,” the institute’s director Emilio Silvestre said.
About two million tourists visited Honduras’s Caribbean islands last year, with around half of them going to Roatán.
Honduras carries the unenviable reputation as having the highest murder rate in the world, but the islands have been largely insulated from the drug and gang violence affecting the mainland.