“We mourn the death of former President Sebastián Piñera. We offered our deepest condolences to family and loved ones,” Luis Arce posted on X. The dignitary added that “from the Plurinational State of Bolivia we send our condolences and solidarity embrace to the brotherly Chilean people”.

According to Chile´s General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics, the helicopter with registration CC-PHP, on which Piñera was traveling, after taking off just turned and crashed into the vicinity of the Ilihue sector, Lago Ranco, Los Ríos Region.

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