Expat bound and killed in new home

A CANADIAN expat   Andreas Zakos 81 years old, was found bound and gagged on Friday,  September 18  in one of the rooms of his  house in the San Francisco neighborhood, in the village of Playa Leona, La Chorrera.

He had received  blows to various parts of his body reports Mi Diario

According to his neighbors, the victim was a friendly man who had moved in into his new home  on  Street E only five months before

They said that on Thursday afternoon they saw him as always on the terrace receiving a visit, supposedly from three friends, with whom he shared a meal.  at 1:00 in the morning according to one of the neighbors two men entered the house and seemed to have a discussion. Then he heard something fall heavily and there was a cry and the music volume was turned up.

He calculated they  were inside the residence for half an hour, until a Kia car arrived  and the two men ran out of the house one  carrying  a backpack.

Police investigations are ongoing.