Six killed as tourist boat sinks in Chile
- Six people were killed after a tour boat capsized in southern Chile on Sunday, the country's investigative police said Monday.
- The accident occurred in the Punta Tiburones area of San Juan de la Costa, a town in Osorno Province in Chile's Pacific Coast Los Lagos Region, some 960 kilometers south of the country's capital, Santiago.
- The owner of the boat has been arrested on charges of homicide, the chief prosecutor of Osorno, Maria Angelica de Miguel, told local media.
- Local authorities said the initial investigation shows one of the motorboat's engines suffered a malfunction, leading to the vessel's crash against rocks and sinking.
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They report that five Army noncommissioned officers boarded the boat that was wrecked in Mansa Bay - La Tercera
As part of the investigation carried out by the Public Prosecutor's Office due to an alleged overload of passengers that resulted in the fatal shipwreck that took place last Sunday, in the municipality of San Juan de la Costa, Los Lagos Region, it was reported on Tuesday that five Army non-commissioned officers climbed onto the tourist boat Río Cholguaco, once it had already sailed.They extended to three days the detention of the captain of the …
7 tourists die when a boat is shipwrecked in Chile: bad weather, excess passengers and the recklessness of the owner of the boat
It happened in Mansa Bay. The ship sank completely due to overweight.It had twice as many people and some of them didn't have vests.The person responsible is investigated for the quasi-crime of homicide.
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