A volunteer firefighter and a Chilean forestry official have been formally accused to have involvement in setting wildfires that engulfed central Chile this past February, killing over 130 people.
SANTIAGO - A volunteer firefighter and a Chilean forestry official have been formally accused by prosecutors with involvement in setting wildfires that engulfed central Chile in February, killing over 130 people. Implicated so far is volunteer firefighter Francisco Ignacio Mondaca, along with Francisco Pinto, an official from Chile's National Forestry Corporation (Conaf), part of the Agriculture ministry that is responsible.
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On Saturday, the prosecutor s office in Valparaiso, a coastal city close to areas hardest hit by the fires, said that both suspects were in pre-trial detention