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The convulsed Chile of the last week joined on Wednesday in horror to learn what happened on Tuesday night: a drunk driver threw himself with his car against a group of protesters and killed two people , including a four-year-old boy , in addition to hurting other 17.

"He literally turned his vehicle into a projectile," the Chilean Channel 13 correspondent graded describing what happened in San Pedro de la Paz, in the province of Concepción, 500 kilometers south of Santiago.

The images captured on video by security cameras are a reflection of the madness of the moment. The driver accelerates to run over a group of about 200 people who demonstrated peacefully in the street, but then stops. Dozens of protesters then attack the vehicle with rage to destroy it , while others fled the place in tears and disbelief at what they had just lived.

"The driver increased his speed when he saw the march of peaceful 'caceroleros', and directly hit the mass. The four-year-old boy died when he received hospital care," the journalist added. Several of the injured are serious.

The driver, arrested by the police, tested positive for breathalyzer with a level of 1.28 grams of blood alcohol . The maximum level allowed is 0.5, which indicates that he was drunk. He also drove without the necessary safe-conduct at that time, in which the curfew was already in force.

There are already 19 dead and more than 2,000 injured since a massive protest broke out on Friday in the country following the rise in the price of the metro ticket, according to Rodrigo Ubilla , undersecretary of the Interior. The discontent, which crosses all social classes and generations, became a real questioning of the general functioning of the country, which led on Tuesday night, before the tragedy of Concepcion was known, to the president of the country , Sebastián Piñera, ask for forgiveness and convene a social agreement between all the protagonists of public life in Chile.

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