Authorities say armed assailants have ambushed and killed three law enforcement officers in southern Chile before setting their car on fire. It's the latest attack on police to revive security concerns in the South American country. It remains unclear who carried out Saturday's assault on Chile’s national police force in the Biobío region.
A man offers his condolences to a Chile an police officer during a demonstration seeking justice for police officers killed in the line of duty, in front of the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago , Chile , Saturday, April 27, 2024. Three police officers were killed early Saturday, in Cañete, Chile ’s Bío Bío region.
“There will be no impunity,” Chilean President Gabriel Boric said, declaring three days of national mourning on Saturday, after firefighters dousing the burning police car made the grisly discovery. “This attack goes against all the enormous strides that have been made,” said Interior Minister Carolina Tohá, a center-left former mayor of Santiago appointed as minister in late 2022 to
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