Panama
Casualties and Victim Assistance
Last updated: 22 September 2015
Casualties
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All known casualties by end 2014 |
3 mine/explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties (1 killed; 2 injured) |
The last recorded casualties in the Republic of Panama were recorded in 2010 when two border policemen were injured on the Panama-Colombia border in an antipersonnel mine incident.[1]
The only other casualty recorded in Panama since 1999 was in 2004, when a farmer was reportedly killed by unexploded ordnance on a former United States military range in Colón province.[2]
[1] “Colombian rebels planting landmines in Panama: government,” Reuters (Panama City), 2 July 2010.
[2] ICBL, Landmine Monitor Report 2004: Towards a Mine-Free World (New York: Human Rights Watch, October 2004).