Chile: Red Cross Supplies Medicines and Helps Prisoners Contact Families

by Gary Kopycinski on March 12, 2010

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Santiago de Chile–(ENEWSPF)–12 March 2010. The earthquake and tidal wave that struck Chile on 27 February also affected the inmates of prisons in the Bío-Bío and Maule districts. In Lebu, prisoners had to be evacuated to a school after the collapse of an external wall. They are now back in their place of detention.