Former Chile President Pinera drowned following helicopter crash

Reuters - 07/02
Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died from asphyxiation due to submersion after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake in southern Chile on Tuesday.
SANTIAGO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died from asphyxiation due to submersion after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake in southern Chile on Tuesday, the local prosecutor's office reported on Wednesday.
Chile's Legal Medical Service, the state coroner's office, in the southern city of Valdivia conducted an autopsy overnight on Pinera, who died at the age of 74, before his remains were sent to receive state honors in the Chilean capital on Wednesday.
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