translated from Spanish: During the night, fires were reported at a police station and two bank branches

During the night of last night and the early hours of today there was an attack on a police station in Carabineros in Maipú and two branches of BancoEstado in the communes of El Bosque and Santiago. “Today at 04:05 a.m., two subjects in dark clothing, both male, approach this unit of the 52nd Police Station (of Carabineros), dropping two Molotov bombs, which impact a back wall of this unit, causing only minor damage,” said Lt. José Ramírez Miranda, a service officer at 52 Carabineros Police Station in Maipú.Ramírez, commented carabineros managed to spot the subjects when the artifacts were in the police station of that commune. “They are tracked and captured at home, which were in the same clothes with which they were spotted.” Both subjects will go to detention control on Sunday afternoon. On the bank attacks, these occurred in branches of BancoEstado, the first at about 22:00 hours at night, when a group of subjects above a white car and parked at the frontis of the bank headquarters located in El Bosque. Then, they turn back the car – which is also commissioned for theft – and break the perimeter fence of the bank, once inside they proceed to burn the place down. Captain Juan Cáceres, round officer of santiago Sur Prefecture, indicated that “this action called a landing is carried out with which the metal curtain of this financial institution is damaged. Through this hole that they generated, these antisocials enter the interior and by means of incendiary objects, thus they proceed to burn this bank and then proceed to withdraw from this place”. A second branch of the same bank was attacked in the commune of Santiago, when two black-clad subjects threw a Molotov bomb down the back of the bank. Captain Marcos Zurita, central prefectural round officer, explained that “two people would have passed through this State Bank on Avenida Matta, to apparently launch some kind of object to burn down the place, which is research and these people they would have fled.”



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