Chile to request US extradite 3 in killing of UN diplomat

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Last Updated : May 18 2016 | 1:42 AM IST
Chile's Supreme Court says it will ask the United States to extradite three former secret police agents accused of the 1976 kidnapping, torture and murder of a Spanish UN official in Chile.
The top court said today that US citizen Michael Townley, Chilean Armando Fernandez Larios and Cuban Virgilio Paz are co-authors in the killing of Carmelo Soria.
The 54-year-old Spanish diplomat was working for the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America.
The accused worked for the feared DINA secret police under Gen. Augusto Pinochet's 1973-1990 dictatorship.
Prosecutors say they apparently targeted Soria because they were convinced he had been helping Communists in Chile.
Townley served a five-year sentence in a US prison for the 1976 assassination in Washington of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his assistant.
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First Published: May 18 2016 | 1:42 AM IST

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