Maria Jose Alvarado, 19,
vanished days before she was due to leave for London to take part in the
pageant.
She went missing with her
sister, Sofia Trinidad, on 13 November after they were seen leaving a party in
a car without a licence plate at a resort near the northern city of Santa
Barbara.
One of the men being
questioned has been named as Plutarco Ruiz, the boyfriend of Ms Trinidad, a
police spokesman said.
Ruiz was arrested on
suspicion of kidnapping and police seized a pistol and two vehicles as part of
their investigation, police spokesman Jose Coello said.
"We are looking for
them, intensifying our operations in Santa Barbara department," he said.
Police are also scouring
river valleys and mountains near the border with Guatemala.
Chief prosecutor Rolando
Argueta said investigators were searching through the women's mobiles phone
communications, looking for clues.
"The more time that
passes without concrete information, the more complicated the investigation
becomes," he said.
Honduras is statistically
the most violent nation in the world.
A UN report released in
April this year revealed the Central American nation, which has a population of
eight million, has a homicide rate of 90.4 people per 100,000.
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