At least 66 killed in Colombia military plane crash

Uniunea Europeana

At least 66 people have been killed in a military transport plane crash in southern Colombia, the country's armed forces chief said on Tuesday. The airplane was carrying at least 128 people on board, mostly soldiers, and crashed shortly after departing from Puerto Leguizamo, a municipality in an Amazonian province that borders Ecuador and Peru. Dozens more were injured in the crash too. Colombian news outlets published videos of local residents rushing to the site of the crash that occurred