Maria Jose, who won the Miss Honduras crown in April, had been due to fly to London Wednesday to compete in the Miss World pageant.

Police have seized a Colt-45 pistol and two vehicles, including a white pick-up truck that was allegedly used to transport the bodies of both of the sisters.

Police also has arrested the owner of the resort, Ventura Diaz; his wife, Elizabeth Alvarado; and their daughter Irma Nicolle.

Alvarado, was in her last year of university at the Northern Polytechnic Institute, where she studied computer science.

She was also known in Honduras for her work as a model on popular TV game show “X-0.”

Organizers of the Miss World pageant have planned to donate money to a children's home in Honduras in the memory of the two women's.

Honduras, a poor country of eight million people, has the world's highest homicide rate, at 90.4 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2012.