Lata chair Martin Johnson has called for agents and Lata members with clients in Chile to remain calm after the deadly fires in the country’s Valparaiso region prompted a warning from the Foreign Office at the weekend.
Chile's president Gabriel Boric has announced two days of national mourning following the death of 112 people
Chile’s president Gabriel Boric on Sunday (4 February) declared two days of national mourning after at least 112 were killed in the coastal region, with Valparaiso and the resort town of Vina del Mar among worst hit areas.
Boric, who called the fires “the biggest tragedy we have experienced as a country since the 2010 earthquake”, said he would deploy “all necessary resources” to control them and attend to the wounded.
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