17-year-old killed on way to school

A 17-year old student in school uniform was hit by a van. in Calobre, Veraguas on Thursday,  June 21 was hit, by a van at around six in the morning and became the 17th person to die on a Veraguas highway this year. Nationally over 150 have been killed.

Byron José Santizo, who lived in the community of Cerro Largo in San Francisco, was heading to school and died at the scene.