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More than 40 detained in Chile for spreading forest fires
10 years agoA group of young volunteers from the nearby city of Lirquen, work in a effort to extinguish a forest fire in Concepcion, Biobio region, Chile on January 28, 2017. Forest fires ravaging southern Chile have now killed 11 people, President Michelle Bachelet said Saturday, as firefighters waged an all-out battle to extinguish the raging infernos. Guillermo SALGADO / AFP
Authorities have detained 43 people suspected of stoking some of the deadly Chilean forest fires that have killed 11 people and destroyed large swaths of land, President Michelle Bachelet said Sunday.