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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Two Honduran gang members were convicted Wednesday of opening fire on a bus and killing 28 people, and each was condemned to the country's maximum 40 years in jail.
Juan Carlos Miranda, 22, and Darwin Alexis Ramirez, 23, were accused of being among about 10 gang members who shot up a public bus full of Christmas shoppers and commuters on Dec. 23, 2004, in the northern city of San Pedro Sula.
They received largely symbolic sentences totaling 822 years each for killing 28 people, trying to kill another 10 people, being gang members and carrying an illegal weapon, according to prosecutor Cesar Alvarenga. Under Honduran law, 40 years is the maximum time that can be served.
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