Tuesday, November 29, 2016

20 journalists among dead in Colombia plane crash (The Associated Press)

Twenty journalists are among the dead in the airline crash that devastated a Brazilian soccer team, officials said Tuesday. Colombian aviation authorities said 21 of the 77 people aboard the charter flight were journalists covering the Chapecoense team from southern Brazil and its upcoming South American Cup match in Medellin, Colombia. One journalist was among the six survivors: Rafael Valmorbida of Radio Oeste Capital, a station in the Brazilian city of Chapeco, where the team is based.

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