Truck kills schoolbound mother and 2 children

A MOTHER  and her two children walking to school were run over and killed by an articulated truck on the Inter-American Highway near the Cobre River, in Viguí, Veraguas. on Monday morning, October 8.

The deaths follow a grim traffic weekend in the province with two others dead and one critically injured, bringing the provincial highway toll this year to 29.  Nationally 294 have died in traffic accidents.