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| 76 dead as plane carrying Brazilian footballers crashes in Colombia |
| 2016-11-30 |
| [DAWN] The corpse count from the crash in Colombia of an airliner carrying 81 people, including a Brazilian football team, rose to 76 Tuesday as officials said at least six people survived the disaster. "Six people were rescued alive, but unfortunately one died. The rest of the occupants unfortunately died. The tragic toll is 76 victims," Jose Gerardo Acevedo, regional police commander, told journalists earlier. Colombia's disaster risk management agency said they later rescued a sixth survivor of the crash, player Helio Hermito Zampier Neto, who is in the process of being evacuated. "The possibility that other people will be found alive has not been ruled out," the agency said. "It appears that the plane ran out of fuel," Elkin Ospina, the mayor of the nearby town of La Ceja, told AFP. He said authorities were on the scene and hospitals and medical centres were preparing to receive the injured. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I had read somewhere that there was an electrical problem and they tried to burn off as much fuel as possible before the inevitable. Awful. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-11-30 18:56 |