A deadly avalanche tore through the Laguna del Inca basin near Chile's Portillo ski resort on the afternoon of Saturday, October 17, killing three people and injuring four more, La Tercera reported, citing the Public Ministry. Chile's disaster agency Senapred had initially put the death toll at four in a late-afternoon update, but Valparaíso's regional presidential delegate, Manuel Millones, publicly corrected that figure the same evening, and the confirmed count stood at three as of Sunday morning. Rescue crews worked through the night while one victim remained submerged in the lake.
The slide struck at roughly 2:45 p.m. local time in the Andes mountains of the Valparaíso Region, approximately 145 kilometers northeast of Santiago by road, a few kilometers from the Paso Los Libertadores international border crossing with Argentina.
