Temuco

“My grandchildren go to the German school, we speak German, we are Lutherans,” said Rosemarie Junge, the rector of Saint Thomas University in Temuco.

Relocated to Temuco when he was 6, Ayenao eventually moved to Santiago, Chile’s capital, to study and there got so sick he couldn’t walk or talk.

The official said that so far no one had claimed responsibility for the attack, which caused a suspension of train service from the town of Victoria and Temuco to the regional capital of La Araucania.

"I want more representation for us in the government and money to be ring-fenced to finance our healthcare and education," she tells the BBC from her home in Temuco, the capital of the Araucanía region.

Hagan, 22, from Murray, Kentucky, was working as a teaching assistant in English and religious education at the Colegio Bautista school in the city of Temuco, 400 miles south of the capital Santiago.