TEGUCIGALPA: Honduras experienced a moment of calm on Saturday after a wave of violent clashes between Honduran authorities and opposition supporters claiming fraud in the country’s presidential election shook the country.

One woman was left dead amid the riots, with the vote count at a standstill.

The country’s top electoral authority could not definitively name a winner.

Kimberly Dayana Fonseca, 19, was killed by military police in the Colonia Villanueva area east of the capital Tegucigalpa, according to her father Carlos Fonseca.

He said that his daughter had left their house to search for an uncle who she thought was taking part in an opposition protest to warn him that authorities were about to begin a crackdown.

“Some of the military police came out of a bush, shooting like crazy and they shot her in the head,” added Luisa, Kimberly’s sister.

A spokesman from the public prosecutor’s office told journalists it had launched an investigation, while the military police released a statement saying it was investigating “exhaustively” the possible role of one of its agents.

Opposition leader Salvador Nasralla, whose leftwing alliance has claimed victory in last week’s vote, condemned the violence on Twitter.

At least 12 civilians have been wounded, some by gunfire, after violence erupted in several parts of the country sparked by Nasralla’s call for his supporters to come onto the streets.

President Juan Orlando Hernandez -- seeking re-election despite a constitutional ban on a second term -- held a 1.5 percentage point lead over his rival with 94 per cent of the vote counted, according to the latest figures from the Supreme Election Tribunal (TSE).

Agence France-Presse