The World - News from Jan. 26, 1986
An explosion ripped through a Chilean arms factory that makes controversial cluster bombs, and police reported four workers dead, 11 injured and 24 missing and presumed dead. The blast occurred at the Industrias Cardoen factory 20 miles from the northern city of Iquique. The company, Chile’s principal private arms producer, was set up in response to a U.S. arms embargo because of human rights violations under the military-backed dictatorship of President Augusto Pinochet.
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