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.