Seven firefighter were died on Monday when they were raging forest blaze on the outskirts of the capital. The firefighters in which four were soldiers & three were forestry workers were with a team which was battling to contain the fire on a mountainside close to Tegucigalpa since Friday.

An official said that they were working to put out the fire & suddenly there was a change of wind direction & they were engulfed by flames. Honduras is at the start of its summer & forest fires at common at this time.