translated from Spanish: [VIDEO] They tried to assault app driver and ended up crashing into a house in Macul

During midnight a complex accident took place in the commune of Macul, as while Carabineros arrived at the scene to see if they had injured and the conditions of the event, they soon realized that they were in the presence of something else. An assault. It all started when two guys requested a service from DiDi, an online urban transport platform. But the individuals, a child under the age of 15 and an adult, did not want to move to another location in the capital, but planned to steal the vehicle. Shortly after getting into the car, the subjects threatened the driver with a white gun to deliver the car, and in reaction to the event, who was being the victim of the robbery, lost control of the vahicule, hitting a house, breaking the gate and wall , to finally be inside the living room of the house. When Carabineros arrived at the scene, who were alerted in connection with the accident, they did not delay in discovering that what had happened was nothing more and nothing less than an attempted assault, so they arrested the two individuals involved. Apart from the two subjects, a child who was in the house was injured, so the three were taken to Luis Tisné Hospital, with no vital risk. Captain Gonzalo Muñoz Díaz, round officer, Santiago Oriente prefecture, noted that after understanding the underlying situation the uniformed managed “the arrest of two subjects who, moments before, had requested through the DiDi application a vehicle of transport to move to a certain place in the capital.” He added that “On the way, the victim – or the driver – is intimidated with a short-hitting weapon, thus losing control of the vehicle, hitting the vehicle in the first instance with a fence at a home, and then with the window of the vehicle, leaving the van to the inside of it,” the officer concludes. The assailants used “a knife and a screwdriver”, which caused a cut on his right arm. Carabineros detailed that “one of (the assailants) is already identified and the other is in the process of verification by the corresponding means,” but is recorded that they “maintain a record for similar crimes.”

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