in Kusapín, community of Ariote  a remote area in Bocas del Toro.

Officials from the Public Ministry went to the Ariote community Río Chiriquí in the Ngäbe Buglé Comarca to investigate.

They bodies of the four children, ages 3, 4, 6, and 8, and the body of the father who allegedly committed suicide.

Early reports indicate that the man's wife deserted him and took off with another man, leaving him alone with the four children.