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Colombia: Plane Crash Kills 76, Including Journalists & Soccer Players

HeadlineNov 29, 2016

In Colombia, a charter plane carrying 22 players from a Brazilian soccer team and more than 20 journalists has crashed en route from Bolivia to the Medellín airport, killing at least 76 people on board. The majority of the players of the Chapecoense soccer team died in the crash. The team was headed to Medellín to play a finals match in the Copa Sudamericana tournament.

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