Election results in Honduras had not been updated for over 24 hours on Wednesday as protests broke out in the capital after calls for the vote to be annulled by the president, alleging fraud, stretching uncertainty in the impoverished Central American nation into its 11th day.

The latest results, released on Tuesday morning, showed Nasry Asfura of the National Party leading his centrist rival Salvador Nasralla by some 40,000 votes, with more than 99% of the ballots counted. But there has been no update to the figures since, leaving the country in a state of suspense and frustration.

On Wednesday, hundreds of demonstrators dressed in red, the color of the ruling leftist LIBRE party, blocked a bridge that connects Tegucigalpa with the neighboring city of Comayagüela.

They said they were calling for a re-do of the elections, which have been marred by a chaotic results reporting process and repeated interventions by U.S. President Donald Trump, who told voters not to cast ballots for the ruling party's candidate, Rixi Moncada, and threw his weight behind the conservative candidate Asfura.