Former head of Pinochet's secret police dead in Chile

[WorldNews]

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Manuel Contreras, the former head of Chile's feared intelligence service under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, has died. Contreras died in a military hospital in Santiago, officials said. The ex-general had been sentenced to more than 500 years in prison for a string of human rights abuses including the kidnap, torture and murder of opponents.

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