Journalist Gets Shot In The Head During May Day Riots In Santiago, Chile

Journalist Francisca Sandoval continues in serious condition, a member of the Signal 3 television team of the La Victoria population that this Sunday was shot in the head by an unknown assailant in the Central Station sector when she was working to report on the mobilization on the occasion of May 1 that she called the Classist Central of Workers.

In a statement, from Signal 3 they denied the death of the young woman as it had been spread on social networks after a surgical intervention to which she was subjected in the former Central Post to where she was transferred after receiving the impact of a bullet in her face.

In a video, it is seen how Francisca is in the central alley of the Alameda in front of San Alfonso street from where a subject begins to shoot at the protesters. While she was trying to capture the moment when she received a shot to her head, going through the visor of the anti-gas mask that she was wearing to avoid the effect of the tear gas used by Carabineros.

In addition to Sandoval, three other people were injured by the shots fired by at least three different subjects from the San Alfonso street sector against the people who gathered at the call of the Clasista Central.