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More than 60 members of Colombia’s armed forces were killed when a military aircraft crashed shortly after take-off in the south of the country early on Monday, authorities said.
Colombian Chief of Defence Hugo Alejandro López Barreto said that “sadly, as a consequence of this tragic accident, 66 of our armed forces members died.”
The defence chief also said that 128 people had been on board: 11 members of the Colombian Aerospace Force, 115 members of the army and two members of the national police force.
Initially, authorities had said that 125 had been on board.
The C-130 Hercules plane was travelling from Puerto Leguízamo to Puerto Asís, in the Putumayo Department near the border with Peru, when it crashed shortly after taking off.
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The cause of the accident remains unclear.
Videos showing clouds of grey smoke and wreckage have been published on social media. (/NAN)
