Weekend deluge kills three, affects 3,000

The weekend storm left at least three people dead, more than 3000 people affected by flooding and landslides, and heavy material losses in the public and private sectors.
Communities remained cut off on Monday and the Transistmica from Panama to Colon was still blocked by landslides. The highway in Arirajan was closed by flood waters following the deluge that hit areas of Colon, Chapira, Arriajan and la Chorrera.
Donacio Medina, 70, and Santos Medina, 34, died in Capira after a landslide in a housing development. Carlos Biergos, 48, drowned in Quebrada Ancha, Colon.
President, Ricardo Martinelli, visited the affected areas along with Ministers of Housing, José Domingo Arias, Public Works, James Ford, and Foreign Affairs Romulo Roux and states of emergency were declared.
The storm on Saturday said La Prensa, harshly punished Nuevo Arco Iris, in Columbus, yesterday continued to plague the region, particularly in the west, where the river Caimito, dividing Chorrera and Arriajan. Overflowed. The Machetazo, Maribel, On the Run, beer distributors, salons, clinics, restaurants and small businesses were damaged.
The mayor of La Chorrera, Themistocles Herrera, ordered the suspension of patriotic parades, which upset of traders who had placed their stalls on the edge of the parade route.
The director of the National Civil Protection System, Arturo Alvarado, called it a mistake the mayor's decision a mistake According to Alvarado, the mayor must consult, Sinaproc in emergency to allow coordination ov=f services
In Colon  a day after the collapse of 11 houses in Nuevo Arco Iris, a part of the Boyd-Roosevelt highway collapsed, forcing the government to declare a free of toll for the Alberto Motta highway.