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List of massacres in Chile

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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Chile (numbers may be approximate):

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Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Notes
Meat riots	22–24 October 1905	Santiago de Chile	250	Unknown
Plaza Colón massacre	6 February 1906	Antofagasta	300	Unknown
Santa María School massacre	21 December 1907	Iquique	2000	Unknown
Forrahue massacre	21 October 1912	Forrahue, near Osorno	15^[1]	Unknown	Killing of Mapuche-Huilliche farmers by Chilean police
Marusia massacre	March 1925	Antofagasta	500	Unknown
Ranquil massacre	June–July 1934	Alto Biobío	477	Unknown
Seguro Obrero massacre	5 September 1938	Santiago de Chile	60	2
Massacre of Puerto Montt	9 March 1969	Llanquihue	10	70
Laja massacre	18 September 1973	Laja and San Rosendo	19	Unknown	^[2]
Operation Colombo	1975	Chile	119	Unknown
Cerro Gallo massacre	1975	Cerro Gallo, Colonia Dignidad	21	0	The military squads fired on prisoners who, once dead, were passed off as guerrillas who would have tried to enter Chile from Argentina by crossing the Andes mountain range^[3]
Attack on Carol Urzúa	30 August 1983	Las Condes	3	0	At least three members of the Chilean army were killed in an ambush by members of the revolutionary left-wing movement^[4]^[5]
Caso Degollados	28–30 March 1985	Chile	3	0
Santiago Penitentiary riot	18 October 1985	Santiago de Chile	8	25	Escape attempt of common prisoners and political prisoners.^[6]^[7]
Operation Albania	15–16 June 1987	Santiago	12	0
Apoquindo massacre	21 October 1993	Las Condes	8	12
2010 Santiago prison fire	8 December 2010	Santiago	81	19

Date	Location	Deaths	Injuries	Notes
6 November 1859	Bahía Wulaia, Navarino Island	8	0	Murder of eight unarmed Europeans by about three hundred Yaghans
7 June 1957	Pupunahue, Valdivia	6	2	Perpetrator was sentenced to life in prison.
20 August 1960	Nahueltoro, San Carlos	6	0	Perpetrator was sentenced to death and executed in 1963
17 December 1999	Valparaíso	3	1 (the perpetrator)	Valparaíso school shootings: Perpetrator wounded after he tried committing suicide,^[8] but eventually recovered and was acquitted by reason of insanity. Committed suicide in 2011.^[9]
8 August 2019	Puente Alto	5	3	Part of an organized crime dispute.^[10]^[11]^[12] Both perpetrators were sentenced to life imprisonment.

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