Two people have died after a motorist fired shots during a protest against a disputed mining contract in Panama on Tuesday, 7 November.
Panama’s national police said they apprehended an adult allegedly linked to an incident in Chame District where two people died.
State prosecutors said in an X/Twitter post that one person had been arrested in connection with the deaths.
Demonstrators were protesting after the government fast-tracked a contract to allow a Canadian mining company to restart an open-pit copper mine surrounded by rainforest for the next 20 years.
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