Rescue workers in the coastal city on Saturday called off their search for a 26-year-old man still missing in the remains of the 15-story building where 12 people had died.
“We’ve humanely and reasonably done all that was possible,” said Juan Carlos Subercaseaux, captain of the firefighters preparing to clear the rubble.
Bachelet deployed 14,000 troops in the wake of the disaster, in a move unprecedented since the 17-year military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which ended in 1990.
She is due to hand over the presidency to Sebastian Pinera, a multi-millionaire right-wing businessman, on Thursday.
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