Prosecutor named to investigate 5 highway deaths

Prosecutor Franco Veliz, from the Primary Care Section of the San Miguelito Regional Prosecutor’s Office, has been assigned ti will be in charge of investigating the traffic accident in which five people died in front of the Metromall shopping center on Saturday, May 25…

According to  Public Ministry’s reports, the accident occurred between 3:00 am and 3:30 am involving   a taxi and a Suzuki car

Two men and three women died and two other women are in critical condition in a hospital. The victims range between 18 and 28 years.

Two women taxi passengers and the driver died from the accident.

There were four people traveling in the Suzuki The driver and a woman died and the other two passengers are the ones in different  hospitals

The incident occurred in front of Metromall, in the corregimiento of Rufina Alfaro de San Miguelito.

The taxi came from the Tocumen area to San Miguelito and the other vehicle from San Miguelito to the Domingo Díaz highway.