Colombia’s civil aviation agency said at least six people have survived the plane crash that killed more than 70 people, including many members of a Brazilian soccer team. At least three Chapecoence players, two plane crew members and one journalist survived Monday’s crash near the city of Medellin. Reports about the number of survivors have varied overnight because of confusion amid the emergency.
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Rescue workers carry a body away from the wreckage of the chartered aeroplane was carrying the Brazilian football team Chapecoense. Luis Benavides / AP -
Brazil’s Chapecoense player Helio Neto is helped by paramedics at the San Juan de Dios clinic in La Ceja, Antioquia Department. Traveling on the plane that crashed in Colombia overnight were the players and staff of a Brazilian football club about to complete a fairytale journey from unknowns to would-be South American champions. Luis Acosta / AFP -
Players of Brazil’s Chapecoense team pose before a Copa Sudamericana soccer match against Argentina’s San Lorenzo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A plane carrying the Brazilian first division soccer club Chapecoense was on its way for a Copa Sudamericana final match against Colombia’s Atletico Nacional when it crashed in a mountainous area outside Medellin. Gustavo Garello / AP -
Rescue workers carry the body of a survivor of a plane crash in La Union, a mountainous area outside Medellin, Colombia. The plane was carrying the Brazilian first division soccer club Chapecoense team that was on its way for a Copa Sudamericana final match against Colombia’s Atletico Nacional. Luis Benavides / AP -
FC Barcelona players and team members observe a minute of silence for the victims of the plane crash near Medellin during their team’s training session at Joan Gamper Sports City in Sant Joan Despi, near Barcelona. Andreu Dalmau / EPA -
Rescuers carry one of the survivors from the LAMIA airlines charter plane that was carryying members of the Chapecoense Real football team that crashed in the mountains of Cerro Gordo, municipality of La Union. Raul Arboleda / AFP -
Fans of Chapecoense football team are pictured in front of the Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, Brazil. Paulo Whitaker / Reuters -
Fans of Chapecoense football team react in front of the Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, Brazil. Paulo Whitaker / Reuters -
Fans of Chapecoense football team are pictured in front of the Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, Brazil. Paulo Whitaker / Reuters -
Flowers and messages are seen next a Chapecoense football team flag in tribute to their players in front of the Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, Brazil. Paulo Whitaker / Reuters
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