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[ursus arctos]

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Atletico Nacional have asked CONMEBOL to award the trophy to Chapecoense

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Awful news. Chapecoense's surprising run to the final had been one of the stories of the season, too.

[cantagalo]

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Neto in a 'critical situation'.

Alan Ruschel has been transferred to another hospital. He has serious injuries to his spinal column.

[ursus arctos]

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This is almost too horrible to believe.

On the eve of the most significant matches in the club's history, them having already achieved more than any of their predecessors.

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

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I imagine I'm not the only one who went to the semifinal video on YouTube and struggled with the fact that one week later most of the players in green are no longer.

[cantagalo]

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Oh God.

Reports that goalkeeper Danilo, hero of the semi-final against San Lorenzo, has died in hospital.

[cantagalo]

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Live pictures of Neto arriving at the hospital in an ambulance.

So that makes 74 dead and 7 survivors.

[Jah Womble]

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76 now confirmed as having perished.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-38140981

There are no words.

[cantagalo]

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Unconfirmed news that defender Neto may also have survived.

[The-Reverend]

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I'll echo that Cantaglo.

Though some small crumb of comfort in seeing people being confirmed as having survived.

[cantagalo]

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It looks like 76 dead and 5 survivors.

Just horrible. Words fail me.

[cantagalo]

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There is live coverage of the tragedy on Globo. The presenters are aware that several of their journalist colleagues were on the flight.

[Nocturnal Submission]

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Hopefully they've been misinformed but the BBC are saying that there are only six survivors out of the 81 souls on the plane.

Now updated to 25 dead and six survivors with the condition of the others presumably unknown at this time.

Awful.

[jefe]

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Mayor of the closest town expects 25-27 dead.

This is the same plane that Argentina were on a couple weeks ago. Pilots reported electrical problems and may have also run out of fuel.

[cantagalo]

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The local mayor has just confirmed that there have been 'at least 25 deaths'.

[cantagalo]

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This is terrible.

72 passengers, including the entire Chapecoense delegation and 9 crew on board. It's crashed in an inaccessible, mountainous region 45 km from Medellín. There are now TV pictures of arrivals at the hospital. Unconfirmed reports that goalkeeper Danilo and defender Alan Ruschel are among the survivors.

Edit: also reserve keeper Follmann.

[Sam]

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Ah, just posted this on the Sudamericana thread before spotting this one. Cross-posted paragraph:

Lots of contradictory stuff flying about on Twitter and South American news channels at the moment, but the latest I've just seen is that apparently Colombian radio stations are reporting no deaths, and survivors are already arriving at a hospital/hospitals nearby.

[Uncle Ethan]

BBC reporting that a plane with Chapocoense team on route to Medellin has crashed:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38140981?ocid=socialflow_twitter