Foreigner Sets Farmer Huts on Fire

November 17, 2009
By pa.di.

La Critica reports that a foreigner sparked a fire that burnt five farmer huts to the ground Monday night in Colon, in La Union de Pina in the Chagres District.

The huts contained bags of recently cultivated rice.  Firefighters were called and the authorities will be investigating.

As to why this happened, there is no explanation yet, but throughout history, huts have sometimes been set on fire when the occupiers of the huts refuse to leave the land.