The victim is a Belgian citizen, married to a Chilean woman, who lived in the Biobío region and had been hospitalized for several days due to burns.

Biobío concentrates the highest number of deaths due to forest fires, with 17 cases, followed by La Araucanía (8) and Ñuble (1).

The forest fires, considered the deadliest in a decade, also caused some 2,000 injuries and 7,657 victims. The flames destroyed 2,410 homes and more than 450,000 hectares of forests, crops and pastures.

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