WITNESSES to the death of two young women hit by a speeding car, on the Pan-American Highway at the entrance to Unión de Azuero in Chepo claim the enraged.s  driver blamed the victims and told them not to call the police saying:  “Do you know who I am?”  according to a newspaper report.

[caption id="attachment_75164" align="alignleft" width="300"] The car that killed the girls[/caption]

The story appeared in   Dia a Dia. Meanwhile,  Mi Diario identified him as Juan Andres Vincensini Altamirano, 28,  grandson of the first ex- vice-president of Panama and prominent PRD leader, Tomás Altamirano “Fito” Duque .

The victims who died instantly were two ethnic Ngabe Bugle women Raquela Arenas Carpintero, 18, and Yaricel Arenas Carpintero, 15, Both lived in a poor neighborhood of  Chichebre. (Earlier reports  listed Yaricel as 16)

The driver was detained by police.

Protests are planned by the local community as  the area has been the site of multiple deaths from speeding vehicles, mostly children, who got off buses to cross to the road leading to the village.