Summary Two people were killed in a suspected arson attack early Friday in southern Chile.
SANTIAGO - The latest in a wave of attacks the government has blamed on a radical indigenous movement.
The burned house belonged to Bernard Luchsinger, 75, who, along with his wife, had been reported missing. Authorities said two charred bodies were found inside the home.
The prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Miguel Angel Velasquez, said a suspect, who was himself injured, had been detained, though Velasquez did not give any further identifying information.
There has been a series of arson attacks in recent weeks in southern Chile, all in territories in which the indigenous Mapuche group claims historic rights.
The government has attributed the previous attacks to a band of radical Mapuche receiving funding from abroad.
"We believe there are about 120 people who generate fear. In the investigation, what is absolutely clear is that there is participation and support from foreign groups," said Interior Minister Andrew Chadwick.
No Mapuche group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The fire on Friday coincides with the fifth anniversary of the killing by police of Mapuche student Matias Matrileo, one of 13 indigenous people killed since 1990, when the indigenous group reactivated its land claims.
The Mapuche number just over 700,000, some four percent of Chile s population of 16.5 million.
