A Canadian man was murdered when a group of bandits boarded his yacht in a remote anchorage on the Caribbean coast of northern Honduras earlier this month.

The man was shot and killed aboard his 35-foot sailboat in a lagoon called El Diamanté where he sought shelter from a storm. The lagoon is near Tela, about 320 kilometres north of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

News reports indicated that the men boarded the yacht with the intention to steal things and shot the man when he tried to stop them.

Milan Egrmajer, in his 50s, had been cruising on his sailboat for the past two years, according to news reports, and at the time was cruising with his adult daughter, who escaped injury.