It is believed that the number of victims will increase significantly as numerous people are missing. There are 165 active fires, and authorities suspect they have been ignited as several fires started at almost the same time.
The Chilean authorities are exalted 112 The number of deadly victims of the fires that affect the Valparaiso regionin the central part of the Chilean coast, where almost 40,000 people are affected by the destruction of houses.
The Deputy Minister of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, confirmed this death toll, of which only 32 they could have been identified to date, 38 autopsies have been performed. In turn, he stated that they have “concentrated all possibilities to remove the authorities sector by sector”.
“We are facing a national tragedy. The president has decided this two days of national mourningwhich shows the magnitude of the impact we have unfortunately faced in the Valparaíso region,” Monsalve stated, as reported by the Chilean newspaper The Mercury.
However, he stressed that firefighting conditions have “substantially improved”: “Today there is no immediate danger to people’s lives. A possible control of the fires can be expected in the coming days, but they remain active and continue to work.
According to current balances, this is so 165 fires registered in the country there are 11 more than on Saturday, of which 40 are still fighting, 112 are under control and four have been extinguished.
Chile’s President Gabriel Boric has indicated that he has spoken with his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has “arranged various forms of support” in this “very difficult moment”, which is being coordinated by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs . . “How important solidarity is in difficult times,” he concluded.
Hours earlier, the governor of Valparaíso, Rodrigo Mundaca, emphasized that in these fires “There is intent” and they have been “transformed into murders, so the registered deaths, including minors, cannot go unpunished. “We are going to prosecute them, we are going to find them and we are going to jail them,” he concluded.
Source: EITB
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