Multiple executions bring drug war slaughter to 186

Jaime Leslie Chamber Barahona, 38, Jesús Leslie Chamber Barahona, 29, and Alanis Massiel Mendoza Carvajal, 19,  who was pregnant were shot and killed in their home in  Tres Quebradas, Los Santos on  Monday night May 11  the latest in a wave of over a dozen assassinations in 24 hours as gangs fight for control of the narco traffic trade routes in Panama. The t slaughter brought the total of gang-related homicides this year  to 186

Judicial authorities believe that the killings are linked to the  “Los Gallegos” anti-drug operation, earlier in the year in which some fifteen people were arrested and a  fleet of luxury cars, cash, and other properties seized.

Hours earlier, four members of a gang were executed on the road to the port of Vacamonte, in the Arraiján district. An AK-47 and a 9 mm pistol with registration number erased were found at the crime scene.

The multiple murder was carried out three hours after Elizalde Alberto Viruet Coindet on the National Police most-wanted list was assassinated, in a luxury residence in Panama city. Two women received bullet wounds.

On Tuesday afternoon in, Vacamonte, three men and two women, apparently linked to a massacre in Chumical were arrested

At about 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday the war between rival gangs in Barraza and Santa Ana left two people dead.

In Barraza the victim was identified as Manuel Enrique Garay Pérez aka ‘El Zurdo’, who was shot from a car by unknown persons. He was taken to the emergency department of Santo Tomás, where he died.

Later, at 4:23 in the afternoon, in the sector of Plaza Amador, Santa Ana, Edgardo Henry (a) ‘Enanito’, 32, was shot to death.

He was taken to the Santo Tomás hospital with wounds to the abdomen and back, where he died. He lived in Torrijos-Carter.