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Santiago, Dec 14 A forest fire in Chile's Metropolitan region has left one person dead, five people injured and 46 homes destroyed after razing at least 659 hectares of land, authorities said.The Interior and Public Security Ministry's National Emergency Office (Onemi) said the fire in Melipilla commune, a rural town located about 70 km southwest of the capital Santiago, was detected on December 11 and continues to burn despite efforts to extinguish it, reports Xinhua news agency.Some 184 people have been left homeless by the blaze.Among the injured is a 67-year-old woman with burns to 11 per cent of her body, medical authorities told local media.Agriculture Minister Esteban Valenzuela told reporters that 52 per cent of fires in the country are caused by negligence or accidents, 12 per cent are of indeterminate origin or being investigated, and only 1 per cent occurs naturally.He lamented that a whopping 35 percent of fires are intentionally started."This cannot go unpunished," said Valenzuela, calling on "the national prosecutor's office to take action on the matter and, given the information provided by Conaf (National Forestry Corporation), to be much more proactive in preventing impunity in intentional fires".Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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