Chile: President Allende's grandson kills self

Published November 17, 2014

A grandson of former Chilean President Salvador Allende has killed himself.

The office of Sen. Isabel Allende says that her son Gonzalo Meza Allende committed suicide on Wednesday. The political analyst was 45 and suffered from depression, especially after his wife died of leukemia last year.

Thursday's statement did not reveal how he ended his life, and the senator's aides tell The Associated Press they will make no further comment.

It is the fourth suicide in the Allende family. Salvador Allende shot himself moments before he was to be captured during the 1973 military coup. A daughter, Beatriz, shot herself in Havana in 1977, and his sister Laura, terminally ill with cancer by 1981, jumped from a Havana hotel.

(This version CORRECTS that Beatriz shot herself and Laura jumped from hotel.)

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