WORLD IN BRIEF : CHILE : Long-Secret Grave Yields 15 Bodies
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Fifteen bound and bullet-riddled bodies were found in a mass grave near the fishing village of Pisagua, Chile, and officials said the site may yield 15 more bodies. The corpses are believed to be those of leftists rounded up and killed by troops after a 1973 right-wing coup. The former military regime ran a detention camp in Pisagua.
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