Four injured in  third migrant  bus accident

A bus carrying 52 migrants from Darien to the province of Chiriquí suffered an accident injuring four passengers on Wednesday morning August 30  near the entrance to Ocú, Herrera.

Personnel from the Panama Fire Department, from the Herrera and Veraguas stations, responded to the emergency, and the injured were transferred to a medical center in Santiago. The rest of the migrants continued their journey on another bus.

“The call was received around 6 in the morning, that a bus on the Santiago-Panama route had overturned at the height of the bridge over the Conaca river,” said the Herrera Fire Department. It was reported that minors were also traveling on the bus.

Currently, Panama registers an increase in the flow of irregular migrants who arrive in the country after crossing the Darién jungle. These people are progressively transferred by bus to the province of Chiriquí so that they can then continue on their way to the north of the continent.

This was the third incident involving migrant buses. In February a bus carrying migrants had an accident in Gualaca, Chiriquí, with a death toll of 39 people.