The casualties include Aurelio Martínez Suazo, a well-known Garifuna musician and former member of Congress in Honduras.

The Honduran musician brought the local Afro Caribbean genre to international attention and served as his country’s first congressman of African descent

Honduran folk musician Aurelio Martínez has died. The 55-year-old was a respected proponent of the Central American culture known as Garifuna. According to his spokesperson, Martinez and 11 other people died Monday in an airplane crash,