Three police officers were shot to death in an ambush this Saturday at dawn in the commune of Cañete, Biobío Region, and their bodies were burned inside their police car.
The crime caused an impact on the institution’s anniversary. The Government declared a three-day national mourning.
According to preliminary information, The attack on the patrol occurred at 1:00 a.m. this Saturday, at kilometer 25 of Route P72S, Antiquina sector, near the border of Cañete and Tirúa, south of the Province of Arauco which is under a State of Exception, like the rest of the Southern Macrozone.
The first to arrive at the scene were Cañete Firefighters, who They found the police van completely burned and with the three police officers deceased inside. They were identified as 1st Sergeant Carlos Cisterna Navarro, 1st Corporal Sergio Arévalo Lobos and 1st Corporal Misael Vidal Cid, all three from the Los Alamos Public Order Control Police Station (COP).
According to Carabineros, The victims were carrying out preventive patrols “when they were cowardly murdered.” A group of unknown armed men ambushed them while they were traveling along the road, shot them down and then burned the police vehicle. Apparently the officials managed to respond to the attack with their weapons.
“To their families, our institutional family, friends and co-workers, our deepest condolences. On this significant date, once again we sadly carry the mourning for those who give their lives for others; for order, security and the country,” expressed a message from Carabineros after learning of the triple homicide.
The presidential delegate of the Province of Arauco, Humberto Toro, declared that “a regrettable attack has occurred against a patrol of the Carabineros COP, which permanently and every day and night patrols in this sector.”
“The police are currently investigating how the events occurred. Unfortunately and with great pain we have to say that we have three deceased police officers, they were burned inside the vehicle. “We are distressed, very saddened with a lot of anger,” he added.
At the site of the attack there are personnel from the Navy, the Carabineros and officials from the Regional Government, in support of the first steps that the prosecutor’s office is carrying out in order to clarify what happened and begin the search for those responsible for this attack that is currently underway. shocking the country.
2024-04-27 13:37:25