Former Chile President Pinera drowned following helicopter crash



SANTIAGO:

Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died from asphyxiation due to submersion after a helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake in southern Chile on Tuesday, a internal prosecutor’s bureau reported on Wednesday.

Chile’s Legal Medical Service, a state coroner’s office, in a southern city of Valdivia conducted an autopsy overnight on Pinera, who died during a age of 74, before his stays were sent to accept state honors in a Chilean collateral on Wednesday.

“As a prosecutor’s office, we are now in a position to be means to surprise a village that a medical-legal means of a genocide of former President Sebastian Pinera is asphyxiation due to submersion,” Tatiana Esquivel, a internal prosecutor where a collision happened, told reporters.

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Esquivel combined that they still haven’t dynamic a means of a collision though that debate information is permitting them to rise a “more illusive theory” and a specialised group is now questioning a pile-up site.

The helicopter carrying a two-time boss of Chile (2010-2014 and 2018-2022) crashed in a waters of Lake Ranco, that is located in a traveller area of ​​lakes, forests and volcanoes in southern Chile, shortly after takeoff.

Starting on Wednesday, a stays of a former boss will sojourn during a domicile of a former Congress in Santiago. The observation will be private before being non-stop to a open and a wake will be hold on Friday.