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Colombia air crash: 75 killed; Brazilian soccer team onboard

Today in a tragedy charter plane with Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense to the biggest game in its history crashed in the Colombian mountains after an electrical fault, killing 75 people on board, authorities said. Colombia’s worst air disaster in two decades killed all but three of players on the team from Brazil’s top soccer league as it flew to face Atletico Nacional of Medellin in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final, South America’s equivalent of the Europa League.