Panama

Casualties and Victim Assistance

Last updated: 22 September 2015

Casualties

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).