Photographed by way of a fence, an armored truck is surrounded by police tape on the Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday. An airport shootout killed a safety officer and an alleged robber in what authorities say was an tried heist of greater than $32 million in money aboard a aircraft from Miami.

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Photographed by way of a fence, an armored truck is surrounded by police tape on the Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday. An airport shootout killed a safety officer and an alleged robber in what authorities say was an tried heist of greater than $32 million in money aboard a aircraft from Miami.

Karin Pozo/Aton Chile through AP

SANTIAGO, Chile — An airport shootout in Chile’s capital killed a safety officer and an alleged robber Wednesday in what authorities stated was an tried heist of greater than $32 million in money aboard a aircraft from Miami.

Around 10 closely armed robbers had been capable of skirt safety measures to achieve the runway on the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, the place a Latam airways plane had $32.5 million in money that was being transferred to an armored truck, Interior Subsecretary Manuel Monsalve stated.

There was a shootout between the would-be robbers and safety officers that killed an worker of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, or DGAC, in addition to an alleged assailant.

The different robbers fled. Two burned automobiles had been later discovered close by.

“The brave action by the DGAC officials frustrated the robbery,” Monsalve stated, noting that the would-be robbers had been “highly organized” and “very armed.”

Video posted on social media appeared to point out bullet holes in a Delta aircraft that was parked subsequent to the Latam plane that was focused. Another video seems to point out a second within the shootout throughout which a whole lot of gunshots will be heard.

“There was no risk to passengers,” DGAC chief Raúl Jorquera stated.

The tried heist focused the $32.5 million that had been set to be transferred to an armored truck to then be distributed to a number of banks within the South American nation.

The tried theft “will undoubtedly lead us to revise processes, protocols that must be improved … it forces us to rethink many things,” Jorquera stated.

This was not the primary time the airport in Chile’s capital was focused. In 2020, thieves stole some $15 million from a warehouse within the airport, six years after the same $10 million heist.

President Gabriel Boric bemoaned the most recent heist throughout a speech Wednesday wherein he stated that “when there’s insecurity, everything else wobbles.”

An enhance in violent crime has contributed to a current decline in Boric’s approval scores, in keeping with polls.