PORTLAND, Maine (AP) _ Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says 60 people from her state are on a church mission trip in Honduras, where the country’s president was ousted in a military coup over the weekend.
Honduran soldiers on Sunday seized President Manuel Zelaya and deported him to Costa Rica. The overthrow came just hours before a rogue referendum that Zelaya had called in defiance of the courts and Congress, and which his opponents said was an attempt to remain in power after his term ends Jan. 27.
Collins says 60 adults and youths from the All Souls Congregational Church in Bangor are in Honduras on a volunteer mission. Collins says her office has spoken with church officials, who say everyone in the group is safe.