Fire in Chile leaves 14 Venezuelan migrants dead, including several children

A violent fire in a precarious housing settlement in the south of Pepper left on Monday the 14th Venezuelans dead, including eight children, reported the vice-mayor of the municipality of Colonel.

“We regret to announce the death of 14 residents of our community. There are three families, eight minors and six adults who died as a result of this fire that destroyed their home.“, he said Javier Valencia for journalists in Colonellocated 530 km south of Santiago.

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“These are Venezuelan families”Who live very precariously, he noted.

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Although the cause of the incident is unknown, the mayor said they were investigating the possible overheating of a stove.

Valencia lamented the increase in recent years in housing construction on unlicensed land, known in Pepper such as campgrounds, where wildfires have become more common.

Coronel is one of the areas most affected by the fire, due to the high temperatures of the southern summer.

In the two houses devoured by the flames lived three “overcrowded families” in “camp conditions”, according to the mayor.

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This does “It is very difficult for services to arrive in good shape to help you.” he added.

Since 2017, the arrival in Chile of migrants from Venezuelathousands of whom crossed the border on foot Bolivia any Peru through clandestine procedures.

According to official estimates, of the 1.7 million foreigners who arrived in Chile in recent years, almost half are Venezuelans who fled the economic crisis in their country.

Source: Elcomercio

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