Hundreds of travelers stranded at Santiago Airport – News

Hundreds of passengers were last night and stranded at the Santiago airport after the cancellation of their flights because of the curfew decreed in the Chilean capital by the violent demonstrations of the past three days, which have already caused 10 deaths, in addition to hundreds of injured

Lying near their bags in the middle of the night and with no place to go, travelers could not fly or return to town due to President Sebastián Piñera's restriction of freedom of movement.

While the army took charge of maintaining law and order in the streets of Santiago and its outskirts, impotence and resignation were evident in the airport terminal.

Despite this, around one in the morning, passengers found relief in the form of water, fruit juice, blankets and biscuits to partially mitigate the wait, the EFE news agency said.

The National Emergency Office (Onemi) and the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) as well as the airline Latam and the collaboration of the companies of the food sector have developed an urban transport bus loaded with material to be delivered free to people stranded in Santiago. .

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We deliver water and cookies to the passengers in the boarding room and the public room on the 2nd floor. pic.twitter.com/RPbLe3IqvV

– SCL Airport (AMB) (@NewPudahuel) October 21, 2019

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Latam, the main airline operating in Santiago, has canceled all scheduled flights at dawn, the company said on its website.

The militarization of the country has increased to try to control the violent excesses in which the radicalization of the demonstrations triggered by the rise of the metro since last Friday.