santiago:
Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died of suffocation after his helicopter crashed into a lake in southern Chile on Tuesday, the local prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.
Chile’s Legal Medical Service and the state coroner’s office in the southern city of Valdivia conducted an autopsy overnight on Pinera, who died at the age of 74, before his remains were to receive state honors in the Chilean capital on Wednesday. Sent for.
“As the Prosecutor’s Office, we are now in a position to be able to inform the community that the medico-legal cause of death of former President Sebastián Piñera is asphyxia due to drowning in water,” said Tatiana Esquivel, local prosecutor where There was an accident, told reporters.
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Esquivel said they still have not determined the cause of the crash, but forensic data is allowing them to develop “more probable theories” and a special team is currently investigating the crash site.
The helicopter carrying the two-time president of Chile (2010-2014 and 2018-2022) crashed shortly after takeoff into the waters of Lake Rancho, located in a tourist area of lakes, forests and volcanoes in southern Chile .
Starting Wednesday, the former president’s remains will lie at the former congressional headquarters in Santiago. The viewing will be private before being opened to the public and the last rites will be performed on Friday.
