Wildfires sweeping through central Chile have killed at least 99 people and hundreds are still missing, authorities said on Sunday, as President Gabriel Boric warned the country faces a “tragedy of very great magnitude”. Chile’s Legal Medical Service, the state coroner, said 99 people have died in the fires, with 32 bodies identified. Earlier in the day Boric, announcing two days of national mourning starting on Monday, said Chile should prepare itself for more bad news. “It is Chile as a whole that suffers and mourns our dead,” Boric said in a televised speech to the nation. “We are facing a tragedy of very great magnitude.”Hundreds of people also have been reported missing, authorities said.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald February 04, 2024 22:34 UTC