Deadly Colombia plane crash: Victims’ bodies flown back home
The bodies of those who died in a plane crash in Colombia earlier this week have been repatriated to their home countries.
On Friday, the remains of 64 Brazilians, five Bolivians and a Venezuelan were taken from Medellin, where the plane crashed after an apparent fuel shortage, to the Rionegro airport on the outskirts of the Colombian city.
Along the road to the airport, mourners brandished white balloons, flowers and Colombian flags to pay a final farewell to the tragedy’s victims, whose coffins were accompanied by a military honor guard.
The body of a Paraguayan victim of the crash was also handed over to his family in a coffin draped in his country's flag.
A charter flight operated by airline LaMia Bolivia crashed in the mountainous region outside Medellin on November 28, leaving 71 people dead, among them members of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense Real. Only six people survived the incident.
The remains of the Brazilian soccer players are scheduled to arrive early Saturday in Chapeco, with some 100,000 fans, about half the Brazilian city's population, likely to attend the funeral procession.
Brazilian President Michel Temer and Gianni Infantino, the president of the world soccer governing body FIFA, are also expected to take part in the event.
"What we want now more than anything else is to go home, to take our friends and brothers home. The wait is the worst," said Roberto Di Marche, a cousin of Chapecoense Real's late director Nilson Folle Junior.
On Thursday, Bolivian authorities suspended LaMia’s operating license and replaced the management of the country's aviation authority.
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