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Cuba mourns deaths of Sebastián Piñera

Havana, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel expressed on X his deepest condolences to the family and friends of former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera who died in a plane crash while traveling over Lake Ranco, Los Ríos region, in the south of Chile.

According to Chile´s Interior Minister Carolina Tohá, four people were on board, three of them managed to get out of the helicopter, but Piñera, 74, who failed to remove his seat belt.

Tohá said that the Police officers recovered Piñera´s body, and President Gabriel Boric ordered that a state funeral be held and declared national mourning.

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