Three police officers murdered in an “attack” in the Mapuche region, southern Chile

Three police officers were murdered in the early hours of this Saturday in the south of Peppervictims of ambush on the day the police institution celebrates its anniversary, the president said Gabriel Boric.

“This morning we received the serious and painful news of a to try in the province of Arauco in which they were murdered three carabiniers”, The president reported in his report X that he was traveling to the region.

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O police They were found burned inside a police patrol on a route in the city of Penclose to the city of Conceptionabout 500 kilometers south in Santiago.

The area is under military protection due to for the incendiary attacks recorded there, most of which were attributed for radical Mapuche groups, the largest Chilean ethnic group, who demand the restitution of ancestral lands.

He to try It happened on the day Carabiniersthe Chilean militarized police celebrates its anniversary.

Commemorative activities were canceled after the murders and the president declared three days of official mourning.

“I assure you for Chileans that there will be no impunity and that we will discover the whereabouts of the perpetrators of this terrible crime”, trusting Boricwho qualified for the perpetrators of this triple crime as “terrorists”.

Together with Boricthey would travel for city ​​of Concepción, the Army commanders, the Air Force and Navyas well as parliamentarians and the president of the Federal Supreme Court.

The Minister of the Interior and Security, Carolina Toáalso traveled to the area.

“It was received from Firemen the warning of a vehicle on fire and, upon arriving at the scene, they discovered that it was a police patrol. Carabiniers”said the minister before boarding.

“Inside the vehicle, they discovered for O three deceased employees, in this charred condition,” he added.

Source: Elcomercio

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