Group E: Shots fired outside Honduras team hotel in Brazil

A group of criminals who had robbed an ATM in the city of Sorocaba ended up involved in a shoot-out with police outside the Honduras team hotel in Porto Feliz.

The Honduran delegation filed complaints with FIFA and the World Cup organizing committee over the incident, in which six shots were heard at around 2 am Monday.

Honduras had arrived at the Transamerica Hotel two hours later, after their 3-0 defeat to France Sunday in Porto Alegre.

"Of course we were alarmed. We had all arrived a little earlier from Porto Alegre and we were in our rooms, unpacking our suitcases after the trip. Some were already asleep, others were still awake," Saul Bueso Mazariegos, the delegation's head of security, said.

Investigators think the shooting is unrelated to either the Honduras team or the World Cup more generally. Police promised the Central Americans they would assess the incident.

"The shots did not hit the hotel. We heard them from inside, they were coming from the street," Bueso Mazariegos said. 

Honduras requested security reinforcements, which were increased from the 40 police officers who travelled with them to a total of 50.

Sorocaba, and Porto Feliz 58 kilometres away, are both in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo.