El Salvador bloodiest year since civil war

In El Salvador this year so far killed about 6600 people.

During the civil war, between 1980 and 1992, were, according to the United Nations daily about seventeen people were killed, which means approximately 6200 deaths per year. This year that number is so overrun with certain hundred.

El Salvador is considered to be one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Youth Gangs provide the bulk of the violence. With 110 murders per 100 000 inhabitants it is this year, apart from the war zones, the most dangerous country. By comparison, in Germany every year not one person in 100 000 inhabitants killed.