Gunmen Open Fire on Students at a Rural University of Panama Campus, Killing 1 and Wounding Another

Panama's criminal police arrive at the scene where a person shot several students at the Eduardo Flores University in the city of Santiago de Veraguas, about 250 kilometers southwest of Panama City, on June 7, 2024. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images

PANAMA CITY, Panama—Two unidentified gunmen opened fire on a group of students on a rural campus of the University of Panama Friday, killing one and wounding another before escaping, according to police and school officials.

University Rector Eduardo Flores Castro said via the social platform X that agricultural sciences students were doing field work at the university’s regional center in Veraguas about 155 miles (250 kilometers) southwest of the capital when the shooting took place.