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Firefighters controls a structural fire that affected the San Borja Church in Santiago | National
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
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Saturday February 25, 2023 | 21:47
Posted by Tamara Rojas
The information is from Fernando Fabres
An accident ended without injuries that occurred inside the San Borja de Santiago Church, where 3 fire companies worked to extinguish it.
On Saturday night there was a fire in the San Borja Churchlocated in the commune of Santiago.
According to information collected by Bio Bio Radio Santiago, the event occurred at the intersection of the streets Carabineros de Chile with Ramón Convalán.
For reasons that are still being investigated, the church that is located in the place began to have a fire emergency, which was promptly controlled.
At least three companies of the Santiago Fire Department with more than 15 volunteers arrived at the point in the capital to fight the incident.
After 30 minutes of work, the volunteers finally managed to extinguish the fire.
Preliminarily, it is presumed that the flames started as a result of a fire-bearing element that was inside the structure.
For now, Firefighters will investigate how the fire started in the well-known church in the Metropolitan region.
Mayor of Antofagasta looks favorably on imitating Florida’s plan to demolish “narco-houses” | Special
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The Municipality of La Florida assured that several municipalities in the country might replicate the plan to demolish the so-called “narco-houses.” One of them would be Antofagasta, whose mayor came to the capital to see the procedure.
The mayor of antofagastaJonathan Velásquez, referred this Friday to whether his commune might imitate the demolition plan of the so-called “narco-houses”as it is being developed by the Florida Municipality.
The communal chief came to said commune in the southeast area of the capital, to know first hand the initiative promoted by his colleague Rodolfo Carter.
Velásquez went to Santa Amalia 533, where demolition work is still underway on a house that belongs to a woman who is in preventive prison.
The community chief pointed out that it is a good idea, so something similar might be done in his city, prior consultation with its inhabitants.
The mayor(s) of La Florida, Daniel Reyes, indicated that the demolition plan is evaluated positively and that there are several municipalities those who look on sympathetically replicate it.
The plan is not to demolish all the houses, but to demolish home additions that were not regularized and that belong to those involved in drug trafficking crimes.
For the moment, they are two properties Where did this plan come to fruition?
Subject is killed by PDI officials during a frustrated trap in Quilicura | National
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
FILE | Mauricio Mendez | UNO Agency
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At least five armed subjects tried to carry out a “lock-in”, for which the officials fired with their service weapons.
A subject was killed by officials of the Investigative Police (PDI) during a frustrated lockdown in Quilicura.
It was an event that occurred during the night of this Wednesday in the Lo Echeverts road.
According to the police version, a couple of civil police officers were moving around the place, when they were intercepted by another vehicle with the intention of stealing their car.
As detailed by sub-prefect Ricardo Saldías, round leader of the PDI, at least five armed subjects tried to carry out a “lock-in”, for which the officials fired with their service weapons.
Product of the shooting one of the assailants was seriously injured, dying on the spot.
The rest of the gang, meanwhile, tried to flee in the same car in which they were moving. However, they ended up colliding, so they finally escaped on foot.
“The couple of officers, while traveling to their home, are intercepted by a vehicle from which around five armed individuals get out with the intention of stealing their car, for which the officers used their service weapons, injuring one of them, who died on the spot,” said Saldías.
Likewise, the vehicle where the subjects were mobilized, maintains a current order for theft.
Regarding the deceased, there is no further background, such as his identity, which must be corroborated in the rigorous expert reports.
By order of the prosecutor on duty, the proceedings were in charge of the OS-9 section of Carabineros.