Death of former Ambassador: Italo Zunino will be cremated in Temuco

Former Ambassador Italo Zunino and two others died after helicopter crash in Los Angeles

In the ICU Hospital Los Angeles remains hospitalized Zunino Miguel Valenzuela (21), the only survivor of the plane crash that killed three people in a secluded mountain range sector of the commune of Quilleco , Biobío Region .


The dead include former mayor of Los Angeles, a former ambassador and president of the Board of Journalistic Bio Bio Company Limited , Italo Zunino Muratori; the largest (R) of Carabineros Luis Alvarado Barrientos , helicopter pilot Capoto and caught fire, and Nicolas Fossatti, rodeo Famer in Chile.

The crash on Friday was recorded at night, 38 kilometers inside the hacienda San Lorenzo, owned by the Zunino family, when the foursome flying overhead under a private activity, as reported Radio Bío Bío.

For unknown reasons, the helicopter Capoto addressing only the young Miguel Valenzuela Zunino, who shot the aircraft before it siniestrara next to the saved Duqueco river .

The boy was found hours later by a family that took him to the care angelino complex, where it remains stable in severity after surgery.

So far the causes of the accident are unknown, since the Zunino family has maintained total secrecy about the fact.

The accident caused a stir in the province, as Italo Zunino, besides being a renowned businessman in the area served as Chilean ambassador to Japan in the government of Patricio Aylwin .

Aemás, DC was mayor of Los Angeles in the 70s and was part of the directory Enacar .

The remains of Italo Zunino are veiled in the parish Perpetual Help in Los Angeles , while the funeral mass will take place this Sunday at 18:00. Later his remains will be moved to Temuco where they will be cremated.

The remains of the helicopter pilot were transferred to the chapel of police in Santiago, where he will be fired.

Meanwhile, Nicholas Fossatti Vilches, who was president of the Cordillera Chilean Horse Breeders Association, was also taken to the Metropolitan Region, to be veiled and buried at Memorial Park in the district of Recoleta.