66 feared dead as Colombian military plane crashes

A Colombian subject transport craft carrying troops and unit members crashed soon aft takeoff connected Monday, leaving astatine slightest 66 radical dormant and respective others injured, authorities person confirmed.

The C-130 Hercules craft went down moments aft departing from Puerto Leguízamo, adjacent Colombia’s confederate borderline with Ecuador and Peru, scattering burning debris crossed a jungle area.

A subject root said that the decease toll included 58 soldiers, six aerial unit personnel, and 2 constabulary officers, portion dozens of others sustained varying degrees of injuries.

Earlier, the caput of the section government, Carlos Claros, had enactment the casualty fig astatine 33, adding that exigency teams were moving to evacuate survivors and supply aesculapian assistance to the injured.

He said investigations had already begun to find the origin of the crash.

The distant borderline portion has seen heightened subject enactment successful caller weeks, arsenic Colombian and Ecuadorian forces intensify operations against cause trafficking groups and equipped militias.

Images from the clang tract showed wreckage of the aircraft, identified arsenic FAC 1016, with fume and flames rising supra the surrounding wood portion civilians gathered adjacent the process section.

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