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Chile's Easter Island is famous for monolithic human figures called Moai statues. These statues were specifically carved to honour chieftain or other important people who have passed away but now several burnt Moai statues have become a symbol of growing tensions in the island.
A fire raged through Easter Island in Chile in the Southeastern Pacific Ocean that burned all the landscape, harming a number of the 1,000 Moai statues there.
Approximately 80 of the island's moai statues were damaged in the blaze, due to the erosion of the volcanic rock they were carved from.
Easter Island’s moai statues have been deeply damaged by a fire at the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some of the monolithic heads may be beyond repair.
A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, authorities said Thursday.