The morning of this Saturday A team from the family Health Center (CESFAM) of Ercilla that made service rounds were ambushed by armed subjects, resulting in one of the officials injured by a ballistic impact.
According to information to which he had access Bío Bío Radioeverything would have originated in the middle of a Rural operation, which had among its purpose the fumigation of the Chacaico post in collaboration with the company Inseclagas.
However, The municipal vehicle in which the staff was transferred, among whom a nutritionist of the Ercila Cesfam was going, was intercepted at kilometer 6 by an indeterminate number of armed subjects and with a covered facewho mobilized in a black truck.
After this, They intimidated the officials, also shooting the floor, which bounced on the right leg of the nutritionist.
Then, the attackers stole the vehicle belonging to Ercilla Cesfam, a Nissan Navara and with GPS team, running away by the same route to the west.
All those affected by this armed ambush were transferred by ambulance to the commune family health center, while the one injured by the bullet impact will be referred to the Hospital de Victoria.
ERCILLA CESFAM official out of vital risk
The municipality of Ercilla said in a statement that, “despite the seriousness of the situation, both officials are out of risk (vital) and have already been referred to the corresponding care centers to receive medical care.”
“The municipality has immediately activated all the security protocols and making the relevant complaints before the competent authorities,” he says.
From the Association of Municipal Health Officials (Agusam) of Ercilla they expressed their “Deep repudiation and rejection” To what happened.
In that sense, they called “Cowardly aggression” The fact that left “one of our officials with a projectile wound, in addition to physical and psychological damage in our officials involved.”
“Being these the main concern, we also suffer the material loss of our truck that was stolen,” they lamented.
It should be noted that so far the number of officials affected has not been specified following this ambush.
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