Authorities in El Salvador say that Romania's honorary consul in the country has been killed in his home.
National Civil Police Commissioner Howard Cotto said today that Salvadoran businessman Ricardo Enmanuel Salume Barake appears to have been strangled.
Salume Barake was a moneylender and authorities say it could have been a robbery. There were no signs of a forced entry and Cotto says the perpetrators took the time to remove footage from the security cameras.
Police deputy director Cesar Baldemar Flores Murillo says they believe multiple people participated and had copies of keys to the home in the exclusive Escalon neighborhood.
Salume Barake is the second honorary consul killed in the Salvadoran capital this year. Panama's honorary consul was found shot dead in his vehicle in May.
