BOGOTA: At least 34 people were killed when a Colombian Air Force plane carrying 125 people crashed just after takeoff deep in the country’s southern Amazon region on Monday, authorities said.
The incident was one of the deadliest accidents in recent history for Colombia’s Air Force, with nearly two dozen people still missing amid the embers of the crash debris.
Jhon Gabriel Molina, governor of the Putumayo department, said in an interview with local news outlet Noticias Caracol that 34 were killed, 70 people were injured and 21 people were missing.
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