Chilean prosecutor raised to 14 the number of injured by explosive device Monday in a shopping mall in a subway station in Santiago, but none of them life-threatening. (See pictures of the attack here in Chile).
"There are 14 people injured at the moment, I understand (that) some seriously but fortunately outside vital risk," the prosecutor told reporters Cristian Toledo. Of the injured, six had an ear trauma due to noise from the explosion and four suffered physical damage from shrapnel.
The device that consisted of a fire extinguisher exploded gunpowder and a timer installed in a metal trash can, that after the explosion became shrapnel.
"This is an act that has all the characteristics of a terrorist act, no doubt," he said in an appearance before the media government spokesman Alvaro Elizalde.
The blast occurred in the area of local food at the Military School station in the lunch hour, and according to preliminary official data, is a device made from a fire extinguisher and clockwork device installed in a dumpster. "I saw wounded people, bleeding, screaming, crying, taking pictures," he told AFP Silvana, cook to attack a nearby restaurant.
"I never imagined it was a bomb," he added. The injured are four women, one of whom underwent amputation of the fingers of one hand, and three men, including a Venezuelan citizen, which at first had been reported that Argentine was injured on a knee, reported the Emergency Service.
As reported by the Deputy Interior Minister Mahmud Aleuy, none of the injured were in life-threatening. "I heard the thunderous sound and felt the smell of gunpowder," he told AFP Hernán Capdeville, one of the thousands of visitors each day this metro station on Line 1, the busiest in the capital.
"The scene was terrible, there was a woman lying on the floor. Clients all running out without paying, leaving the food on the plates," he told AFP Rosa Valdes, another restaurant worker.
The Ecole Militaire Metro station was cordoned off and is being reviewed by police officers. According Aleuy, "the suspects are two young people" who have fled in a vehicle, although the investigation is still open. The metro lines continued to operate normally, but stop at the Ecole Militaire station was temporarily suspended.
"It gives me panic come to work tomorrow, I have to review all landfills," said Rosa Valdes. President Michelle Bachelet suspended its agenda and convened an emergency council in La Moneda.
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