Five in detention for triple slaughter

Five people, three men and two women charged with homicide, wrongful association to and attempted homicide following a  triple murder at 1,30 pm on  Saturday, November  2   in Soná, Veraguas. Investigators have six months to complete their work

Other people  are being investigated as accomplices of the event, including two minors,

La Critica reported that one of the accused is cooperating with the authorities and after being arrested at 11 pm on Saturday gave information of the place where the weapon used in the triple crime was located. Killed were  Otilia Sánchez Santos, 46; Milagros del Carmen Aponte Sánchez, 16; and Tomás Mela Quintero, 66. Two more people – one of them a 10-year-old infant are in hospital with gunshot wounds.

Veraguas has been shaken with two triple homicides, the first on Thursday in the community of Canacillas, and the other on Saturday, for which the arrests were made. A seventh  suspicious death  in Veraguas on Sunday is under investigation

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