It saddens me to report this news. Reports have surfaced that a LaMia airlines charter plane carrying members of the Brazilian soccer team, Chapecoense Real football team has crushed killng reporting over 70 people. The LaMia Airlines Charter crushed somewhere in the mountains of Cerro Gordo, Colombia. Officials are saying that so far they can report six people have survived.
According to USA Today,
A chartered plane carrying a first-division Brazilian soccer team to an historic game crashed in northwestern Colombia on Monday night, killing 76 of the 81 people aboard, authorities said. Six people initially survived the crash, but one of them died a short time later, authorities said.
The 72 passengers included members of Chapecoense, a Brazilian soccer team that had risen from relative obscurity to play in one of South America’s most prestigious tournaments. The team had been scheduled to play in the Copa Sudamerica finals against Atletico Nacional on Wednesday in Medellin.
“The pain is terrible. Just as we had made it, I will not say to the top, but to have national prominence, a tragedy like this happens,” club vice-president Ivan Tozzo told Globo SportTV. “It is very difficult, a very great tragedy.”
Juan Carlos de la Cuesta, president of Atletico Nacional, expressed his club’s support and solidarity with Chapecoense.
The tragedy stunned the soccer-mad nation of Brazil. President Michel Temer said he was mobilizing the foreign affairs and defense ministries to assist families of the victims. Brazil’s embassy in Bogota was reaching out to families, and planes were made available to transport them to Colombia and to aid in the search and rescue.
“The government will do everything possible to ease the pain of the family and friends of sport and national journalism,” Temer said.
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