Bombing at Santiago, Chile’s Metro Station Leaves 8 Injured

Monday’s bombing at a Santiago metro station that left eight people wounded was a terrorist attack, the Chilean government said.

“This was undoubtedly a terrorist act that deserves our condemnation. The government will invoke the anti-terrorism statute to punish the guilty to the full extent of the law,” Cabinet minister Alvaro Elizalde said upon arriving at the scene of the attack.

The explosion, which took place at a fast-food restaurant inside the Military School metro station, wounded eight people ranging in age from 20 to 65.

Two people were badly hurt, according to paramedics.

The police bomb squad rushed to the scene to carry out investigations into the composition and characteristics of the explosive device.

“There is a great deployment of Carabineros militarized police trying to locate people who could be involved in the incident,” Col. Mario Rozas told the press.

The attack “deserves a strong response,” Interior Minister Rodrigo Peñailillo said, adding that “the government is coordinating all the necessary actions to discover the intellectual and material authors of this crime and bring them to justice.”

“Innocent people have been affected by this incident, which deserves the stiffest sentence, the most drastic penalty established by our legislation,” he said. EFE

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Published in Latino Daily News