Chile Says Operator of Collapsed Mine Fled Country
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A Mexican national, who leased the Los Reyes copper mine in northern Chile where two workers were killed yesterday, fled the country, investigators confirmed.
The person, whose name wasn’t disclosed, took an injured worker to the hospital before abandoning a truck at the Copiapo airport and flying to Santiago, Lorena Soto, deputy prosecutor in the northern city of Copiapo, said in a statement e-mailed by the public prosecutor’s office.