Pinochet loses his immunity

Chile’s former leader Augusto Pinochet was today stripped of his legal immunity against trial for the killing of two bodyguards of Salvador Allende, the Marxist president he toppled in the bloody 1973 coup that installed his long dictatorship.

The president of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Juan Escobar, said the justices voted 17-6 to remove the immunity that 90-year-old-retired general enjoys as a former president.