2023-11-07 21:26:23
SANTIAGO: At least 14 people, most of them children, were killed in a fire in the migrant neighborhood of Coronal in southern Chile on Monday night, local authorities said. Hugo Cuevas, Coronel’s chief prosecutor, said the victims appeared to be undocumented Venezuelan immigrants. Reports have been commissioned to establish the origin of the fire and according to preliminary information, it was caused by a handmade stove in a house with only one access point. At an event on the country’s new proposed constitution in Santiago on Monday, Chilean President Gabriel Boric condemned the fire, and Interior Minister Carolina Toha Xil said the government had arranged for an official delegation to travel to Coronel to investigate the fire and arrange the necessary assistance.
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