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Pele leads football tributes to plane crash victims

29 November 2016, 5:51 pm
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Brazil football legend Pele and Argentines Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi are leading sporting tributes today to the Brazilian footballers killed in a plane crash in Colombia.

Players of the Chapecoense Real team were among 81 people on board the doomed flight that crashed into mountains in northwestern Colombia.

“Brazilian football is in mourning. It is such a tragic loss,” Pele, 76, tweets.

“My sincere condolences to the families of the deceased. Rest in peace.”

Colombian officials say just six people were thought to have survived, including three of the players.

— AFP

Rescuers search for survivors from the wreckage of the LAMIA airlines charter plane carrying members of the Chapecoense Real football team that crashed in the mountains of Cerro Gordo, municipality of La Union, on November 29, 2016. ( AFP PHOTO / RAUL ARBOLEDA)
Rescuers search for survivors from the wreckage of the LAMIA airlines charter plane carrying members of the Chapecoense Real football team that crashed in the mountains of Cerro Gordo, municipality of La Union, on November 29, 2016. ( AFP PHOTO / RAUL ARBOLEDA)

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