Father and son drowned in flash flood
THE BODIES of a man and his seven-year-old son drowned by a river that had suddenly risen to flood levels, on Wednesday Nov.4, were recovered on Thursday.
The boy was swept away by the torrent and his schoolteacher father died trying to save him from the Mula River in Bugaba, Chiriqui.
The multi-organization search team consisted of some 60 staff members from the Civil defense agency (Sinaproc), police, Border protection, the fire department, the Red Cross and the Aeronaval service (Senan), said a Sinaproc Tweet.