Chilean Rights Panel Invaded
Two gunmen raided the Chilean Human Rights Commission today, beat a secretary on the head, rifled through archives and stole files on terrorism, a commission official said.
The young men, both armed with revolvers, burst into the commission’s offices in downtown Santiago and hit the secretary with their guns, the official said. After ransacking the archives, the gunmen ran away with all the files they could find on terrorism and counterterrorism and an address book containing names and telephone numbers of employees.
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