The feat is considered rare in the Central American country that is plagued by gang warfare in addition to having one of the highest murder rates in the world.
The first eleven days in the New Year has seen the murder of over one hundred and ten people, at the rate of ten people a day, until what has been described as unexpectedly peaceful Wednesday.
However; the police did not offer any explanation for the lack of violence, but the authorities were quick to deny that they had restored a controversial truce with the warring gangs.
