Two people are killed in Chile's thwarted $32.5 million airport robbery.

A multimillion-dollar heist at Chile's largest airport has left two dead, officials said Wednesday. A shootout between robbers and officials from Chile's DGAC aviation agency at the Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago resulted in the deaths of a DGAC airport security official and one of the robbers. Officials said around 10 people broke into the airport in three or four trucks, targeting an armored vehicle carrying a "valued load" from a LATAM Airlines plane. Raul Jorquera, general director of the DGAC, told reporters that no passengers were at risk during the encounter, and that the robbers had "high capacity firepower" to steal the money. Organized crime in Chile has spiked in recent years, including elaborate train heists and multimillion-dollar robberies at the country's main seaport.