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The body of a woman was found this Tuesday night in the streets of downtown Santiago, something that was confirmed by the Carabineros following finding the body and beginning the investigations into this case.

The civil police investigate a crime of homicide registered in the vicinity of the Yungay neighborhood in the heart of Santiago.

On Tuesday night and preliminarily, passersby alerted the presence of a woman between 30 and 40 years old on the sidewalk of Calle Rosas with Maipú, which presented a ballistic wound at the height of his head.

The sector was attended by personnel from the metropolitan SAMU who, following a few minutes, confirmed the death.

Lieutenant Víctor Espinoza, Officer of the Central Santiago Prefecture Ronda, indicated that the victim kept garbage bags with clothes on his side, where all his personal species were, for which reason he would rule out the hypothesis of an assault.


According to witness statements, these would point to a lone person responsible who, armed with a firearm, shot at the woman.

From the Public Ministry, it was ordered that the PDI Homicide Brigade go to the place, where they carried out the first expert reports to find the whereregardings of him or those responsible for the crime.