PANAMA CITY.- A Halloween night ended in tragedy in Panama. In the framework of a party promoted with images from the popular Netflix series , The Squid Game , five people were killed in a shooting last Friday , in what police authorities already associated as a war between gangs linked to drug trafficking. Three other bodies with signs of execution turned up in a garbage dump.
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The incident occurred during the early hours of last Friday, during a Halloween-themed party at a nightclub located in the popular neighborhood of Santa Ana, in Panama City, near the touristy old town of the capital, where seven other people were injured.
Police, Ricaurte De La Espada. The party was promoted with images from the popular Netflix series, The Squid Game. The South Korean production faces 456 participants in fatal challenges where only one can survive and take the final prize.
The prosecutor, Rafael Baloyes, indicated that the incident occurred when an individual fired indiscriminately at alleged members of the rival gang “Los Galácticos” , who also opened fire on their attacker.
The attacker died on the spot, while four of those attacked died in hospital.
In this case there are two people arrested, including a brother of one of those killed in the attack, who was found a firearm.
“We assume that he used the firearm to defend his brother,” said Baloyes.
For his part, Police Director John Dornheim said that several of those involved had criminal records and gunshot wounds from previous incidents.
After the police intervention in the thematic party that culminated in the five deaths, three bodies were found in Kuna Nega, the main garbage dump in Panama City. The three bodies, with signs of having been executed .
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In recent weeks in Panama there have been several murders in restaurants and shops, which has generated alarm.
Panamanian authorities link this type of murder to the settlement of scores between rival gangs for control of drug routes.
Experts consider that the greater the number of seizures, the greater the number of murders in retaliation for the seized merchandise.
So far in 2021, Panama has already seized a record 100 tons of drugs, mainly cocaine, that drug traffickers try to transport from South America, mainly Colombia, to the United States, the world’s largest consumer of this drug.