Three police officers were murdered in Chile, in what is believed to have been an ambush in the south of the trans-Andean country. President Gabriel Boric, He declared national mourning for three days.
«After an emergency meeting with ministers Carolina Tohá, Maya Fernández, undersecretaries Manuel Monsalve and Ricardo Montero, and the presidential delegate of Biobío, Daniela Dresdner; cWe coordinate immediate actions to respond to this cowardly attack. In the next few hours, I will travel with various State authorities to the area,” Boric reported through his social networks.
The president affirmed that he will not go unpunished. «The police, Armed Forces and Government teams are already working at the scene. I assure Chileans that there will be no impunity and that we will find the whereabouts of the perpetrators of this terrible crime,” he stated.
The general director of the police, Ricardo Yáñez, indicated that the first investigations indicated that the attack was planned. In addition, he asked the rest of the troops to continue working “with their heads held high,” he said in dialogue with the Biobío radio station.
They murdered three police officers in Chile: they set fire to a car
The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá specified what happened. “The Firefighters received a notice of a vehicle on fire and, when they arrived at the scene, they discovered that it was a Carabineros patrol, in a vehicle that was dedicated to monitoring precautionary measures in the area. And, inside the vehicle, they discovered the three deceased officials, in this burned condition,” the official reported.
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