At least 11 people are killed by riots – Abstract 3

Eleven people died, more than 200 were injured and 110 supermarkets were looted (14 of them were also burned) during the outbreak of violence that shakes Chile, according to an official report released Monday by the Minister of the Interior, Andrés Chadwick.

Just on Sunday night, authorities reported three deaths in riots, as well as 50 injuries among police and military personnel and 350 acts of violence. In addition, the authorities have again decreed curfew for Monday in Santiago, Valparaiso and Concepción.

Chadwick said the incidents of the last two days reinforce his theory that the wave of violence in Chile has a high degree of organization among criminal groups.

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"Yesterday (Sunday), I said we could not be naive enough to think that there was no action that could be linked, organized in some of these criminal sectors, and this is quite obvious with what has happened in recent days, "he said. the minister, quoted by the agency EFE.

On Sunday night, two people died when a crowd looted and burned an industrial goods supermarket in Santiago, Chile.

A third was killed in the city of Coquimbo by a shot fired by security forces who maintain order in several cities where the curfew was declared, according to the report of the minister.

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Plaza Italia now. Massive and peaceful civil disobedience. All the beauty of the world in a Chile that has woken up. People with spoons and pots stop the tanks. pic.twitter.com/oVLsQcS42s

– #PamelaJilesDiputada (@PamJiles) October 21, 2019

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These three victims join the eight other victims reported on Saturday and Sunday, so that the total number of deaths in the middle of this spiral of violence has reached eleven.

In addition, the Ministry of Health reported that at least 10 of the 200 wounded were hospitalized with a risk of death.

Throughout this Sunday, new acts of violence have been repeated, with serious clashes with the army and security forces, looting, shootings and attacks, in a wave of violence that keeps a good part of Chile on alert.

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Head of the National Defense of Punta Arenas, General Jorge Mario Peña N. He delivers balance to the Magellan Municipality and the Chilean Antarctic. #JefeDeDenfensaPuntaArenas #Exception Status pic.twitter.com/3RRSs44Jsg

– Chilean Army (@Ejercito_Chile) October 21, 2019

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The militarization of the country ordered by President Sebastián Piñera has intensified in recent hours to try to control the violent excesses caused by the clashes between protesters and security forces, in the wave of protest triggered by the rise in the electricity and electricity rates. transport.

The report of Angie Gatica.