Beauty Queen Kidnapped Just Before Miss World Contest

Honduran beauty queen has been reported missing days before she was set to leave for London to compete in the Miss World Pageant. Maria Jose has been missing since Thursday when 21-year-old ws seen leaving party with her sister in a car without licence plate. The local beauty contest host said," what me worries is that car did not have a licence plate and the root problem here is the rule of crime." The young women disappeared in the the Santa Barbara region in the western Honduras that is controlled by drug gangs.

. Honduras is the murder capital of the world, with a homicide rate above 90 people in 100,000, about the double rate of closest peers Venezuela, El Salvador and Belize. Events surrounding the contest start this weekend ahead of contest's finale in December 14. According to the latest news, beauty queen and her sister were found shot dead at a remote river bank and police said the sister's boyfriend confessed the killing over jealous rage his girlfriend dancing with other man.