Panama City (CNN Spanish) — A 7-year-old migrant boy joined the fatalities in the bus accident that fell off a cliff in Gualaca, in Panama’s Chiriquí province on Wednesday, the country’s health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
So far the number of people killed is around 40, a number that cannot yet be accurately determined due to discrepancies between the number of victims reported by various state institutions.
The boy was among the group of 66 migrants who left Darién on the bus that crashed near Los Planes immigration shelter in Gualaca, where they were traveling and was the last place they would stay on Panamanian territory before they continued his way north.
So far, the Panamanian authorities have not revealed the nationalities, ages or other information of the deceased. On Wednesday, the institutions dealing with the issue reported at a press conference that there were 10 injured children, three of whom are in critical condition. The deceased minor belonged to this group.