Boy cyclist road death victim

A 15-year-old cyclist who had just left a convenience store in Las Lajas in Chame was hit by an  SUV whose driver said he tried to avoid the boy but the vehicle went into a slope and flipped over. The accident was reported around 5:30  on Friday afternoon Hours earlier, the body of a 40-year-old victim of a hit-and-run was found in La Peña, district of Santiago, in Veraguas. The two deaths raise the total of highway fatalities this year to 244.