3 arrested in subway bombing

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A police explosives expert inspects a garbage container while working near a blast site at a subway station in Santiago, Chile, Monday Sept. 8, 2014. A bomb exploded in the Chilean subway station injuring at least seven people, the most damaging in a string of bombs planted around the country's capital this year. (AP Photo/ Luis Hidalgo)

Chilean police arrested three suspects on Thursday in the country's worst bomb attack in more than two decades.

Interior and Security Minister Rodrigo Penailillo announced the arrests of two men and a women. One is suspected of carrying out the Sept. 8 bomb attack at a shopping area connected to a Santiago subway station that injured 14 people, while the other two are suspected of acting as accomplices. Their identities have not been released.

"We hope that they will be sentenced for these extremely serious acts," prosecutor Raul Guzman said.

"Our country hasn't lived and doesn't deserve to live in fear of these types of acts."

Attorney General Sabas Chahuan said the suspects are members of an "enclosed anarchist cell" and also are suspected of being involved in a bomb planted at another subway station in Santiago on July 12, causing material damage but no injuries.

Santiago is one of the safest capitals in Latin America, but Chileans have been shocked by at least 29 bombs that have been planted across the city so far this year. Some have not gone off, and none of the earlier bombs caused any injuries.

Prosecutors say anarchist groups have planted many of the 200 bombs in the past decade. They say the only death, and only other serious injury, were suffered by anarchists trying to plant bombs that exploded prematurely.