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		</div><p>A plane with a Brazilian first division football team on board has crashed in Colombia while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people.</p>
<p>Officials said that six people initially survived the crash near Medellin, but one died later in hospital.</p>
<p>The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency at 10pm local time on Monday because of an electrical failure, aviation authorities said.</p>
<p>The aircraft, which had departed from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, was transporting the Chapecoense team to Medellin’s Jose Maria Cordova airport.</p>
<p>The Jose Maria Cordova de Rionegro airport, which serves Medellin, posted on its Twitter account: </i>&#8220;Confirmed, the aircraft licence number CP2933 was carrying the team @ChapecoenseReal. Apparently there are survivors.&#8221;,</i></p>
<p>The team was scheduled to play on Wednesday in the first of a two-game Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional of Medellin.</p>
<p>It was not immediately clear if the team switched planes in Bolivia or just made a stopover with the same plane.</p>
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<p></i>“What was supposed to be a celebration has turned into a tragedy,”</> Medellin mayor Federico Gutierrez said from the search and rescue command centre.</p>
<p>The club said in a brief statement on its Facebook page that </i>“may God accompany our athletes, officials, journalists and other guests travelling with our delegation”.</i></p>
<p>Brazil as well as South America’s football federation extended its condolences to the Chapecoense community and said its president, Luis Dominguez, was on his way to Medellin.</p>
<p>All football activities were suspended until further notice, the organisation said in a statement.</p>
<p>Elkin Ospina, mayor of La Ceja &#8211; near where the crash took place, said rescuers working through the night had been heartened after pulling three passengers alive from the wreckage.</p>
<p>Authorities and rescuers were immediately activated but an air force helicopter had to turn back because of low visibility.</p>
<p>Heavy rainfall complicated the night-time search, and authorities urged journalists to stay off the roads so ambulances and other rescuers could reach the site.</p>
<p>Images broadcast on local television showed three male passengers arriving to a local hospital in ambulances on stretchers and covered in blankets connected to an IV. All were apparently alive and one of them was reportedly a Chapecoense defender named Alan Ruschel who doctors said suffered spinal injuries.</p>
<p>Two goalkeepers, Danilo and Jackson Follmann, as well as a member of the team&#8217;s delegation and a Bolivian flight attendant, were found alive in the wreckage.<br />
But Danilo later died while receiving hospital treatment, team spokesman Andrei Copetti said.</p>
<p>The plane was carrying 72 passengers and nine crew members, aviation authorities said in a statement.</p>
<p>Local radio said the same aircraft transported Argentina&#8217;s national squad for a match earlier this month in Brazil, and previously had transported Venezuela&#8217;s national team.</p>
<p>The team, from the small city of Chapeco, was in the middle of a fairy tale season. It joined Brazil’s first division in 2014 for the first time since the 1970s and made it last week to the Copa Sudamericana finals – the equivalent of the Uefa Europa League tournament – after defeating two of Argentina’s fiercest squads, San Lorenzo and Independiente, as well as Colombia’s Junior.</p>
<p>The club’s modest 22,000-seat arena was ruled by tournament organisers too small to host the final match, which was instead moved to a stadium 300 miles to the north in the city of Curitiba.</p>
<p><i>“Chapecoense was the biggest source of happiness in the town,”</i> the club’s vice-president, Ivan Tozzo, told Brazil’s SporTV. <i>“Many in the town are crying.”</i></p>
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