Eight dead between shooting and executions on bloody Halloween night in Panama

Five people were killed in a shooting Friday during a Halloween party in Panama, in

, and three other bodies with signs of execution turned up in a landfill.

In the early hours of Friday, five people were shot dead and at least seven wounded during a Halloween concert at a

, in Panama City, near the touristy old town of the capital.

"The fact is due to a war between gangs," said the commissioner of the National Police, Ricaurte De La Espada.

The party was promoted with images from the

.

The prosecutor, Rafael Baloyes, indicated that the incident occurred when

at alleged members of the rival gang

, who also opened fire on their attacker.

The attacker died on the spot, while

"These criminal groups are not going to stop having criminal behaviors linked to drug trafficking, gang activity, this will bring a consequence," he said at a press conference

Two detainees

In this case, there are two people arrested, including a brother of one of those killed in the attack, who was found with a firearm.

"We assume that he used the firearm to defend his brother," Baloyes said.

Police Director John Dornheim said several of those involved had criminal records and gunshot wounds from previous incidents.

In another violent incident, three people were found dead in the

, on the slopes of Cerro Patacón, the

.

"The evidence is that they are executed," declared Baloyes.

In recent weeks in Panama there have been several murders in restaurants and commercial premises, which has generated alarm.

Panamanian authorities link this type of murder to the settlement of scores between rival gangs for

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

, 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.

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