Honduran soldiers and police have clashed with protesters blocking roads across the Central American country, as discontent continues to fester nearly two months after a disputed presidential election.
At least one person has died as security forces launched teargas against rock-throwing supporters of the centre-left Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship.
Security forces have also been attempting to clear impromptu roadblocks of burning tires that protesters have set across the capital Tegucigalpa and around the country, according to police sources and TV images.
Honduras, a poor, violent country that has long sent vulnerable migrants north to the United States, has been embroiled in a political crisis since its presidential election last November, which the opposition says was stolen by centre-right President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
At least 31 people have died in violent protests since the election.
"Out with JOH, out with the dictator," masked protesters shouted in Tegucigalpa's Miraflores neighborhood.
A local NGO said a 60-year-old man died and another person was wounded when military police opened fire on protesters blocking a road in the town of Saba, 210km northeast of the capital.
A security ministry spokesman told local media that the incident was being investigated.
Twelve people had been arrested across the country, he said, adding that three police officers and a soldier were injured in the protests.
The Honduran electoral tribunal declared Mr Hernandez, a staunch US ally, winner of the election last month despite strident protests over the vote count.
Initially, the vote tally had clearly favored centre-left opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla, but it swung in favor of the incumbent after a 36-hour delay.
Mr Hernandez is due to take office on 27 January.
"We have to stay in the streets," said former President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a 2009 coup and is one of the opposition leaders.
"If they move us from one spot, we have to move to another. We need to be permanently mobilised to keep up the pressure and prevent the dictator from installing himself."
