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| Colombia plane crash live: Rescuers find 'at least six survivors' among wreckage | |
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| Rescuers say at least six survivors have been found among the wreckage of a chartered plane carrying 82 people, including the squad of a top Brazilian football team, which crashed outside the Colombian city of Medellin. | |
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| A plane carrying 81 people, including the squad of a top-flight Brazilian football team, has crashed in mountains outside the Colombian city of Medellin. | |
| The crash occurred amid poor weather conditions as the plane was on its way to the city's international airport, and the country's civil aviation authority said ambulances and emergency workers had arrived at the scene. | |
| Local authorities said there appeared to be survivors, and confirmed the plane was a chartered flight carrying the team of Chapecoense Real for the final of a regional tournament. | |
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