SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Manuel Contreras, who led Chile's now-defunct and much feared secret police force for several years under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, died on Friday evening at the age of 86.
Contreras had suffered from colon cancer and was admitted to a military hospital this week after his health deteriorated. He was several years into a 505-year prison sentence for human rights violations committed during Pinochet's 1973-1990 rule.
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