Six members of a Venezuelan family residing in Chili were injured after the explosion due to a gas leak at their vegan food outlet that they planned to open this Sunday.
The incident occurred during the night of last Friday and affected three more properties in the Las Encinas sector, in Concón, in the Valparaíso region.
Captain Francisco Carroza Reyes, an officer of Ronda Viña del Mar, reported that “for reasons that are being investigated, an explosion occurred in a commercial premises where several people were injured. Two of them are in vital risk.
In addition, he added that “in the first instance it is indicated that it occurred because of a gas balloon,” reported the website of meganews.
The victims
The Venezuelans The injured were identified as Elvira Reyes de Molleda, María Daniela Molleda, Mariangel Molleda, Pilar Yosmar Arismendi and Oscar Arismendi, the name of the sixth person is unknown.
It was reported in local media that Oscar Arismendi and Pilar Yosmar Arismendi, father and daughter, are in the Intensive Care Unit of a care center with burns on a large part of their bodies.
Firefighters came to the scene of the accident in the company of municipal and health personnel to attend to the people affected by the noise.
“The emergency, which is under control, left a balance of six injured, transferred to the Concón care center and three commercial premises with various damages,” said the Vina del Mar Fire Department in the publication of his Twitter account @bomberosvina.
