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Four Spaniards being repatriated home from Bolivia due to coronavirus die with two Air Force crew in military plane crash in north of country

Four Spaniards who were being repatriated because of the coronavirus crisis and two aircraft crew have died in a plane crash in Bolivia. ...

Four Spaniards who were being repatriated because of the coronavirus crisis and two aircraft crew have died in a plane crash in Bolivia.
They were on a Bolivian Air Force (FAB) plane which went down after reporting technical difficulties as it headed for the city of Santa Cruz and turning back to its departure airport.
The bodies of the two crew members along with one male and three women passengers are now in a local hospital morgue ahead of the post-mortems.
The plane crashed about six miles from the city of Trinidad, in north-eastern Bolivia, just before 2pm local time on Saturday.
The four Spaniards have been named as Francisco Jose Gallegos Gonzalez; Alba Aparicio Fornas; Yandira Oliverra Velarde; and Deliz Salvatierra Valverde.
Francisco and Deliz were husband and wife.
The plane crashed about six miles from the city of Trinidad, in north-eastern Bolivia, just before 2pm local time on Saturday
The plane crashed about six miles from the city of Trinidad, in north-eastern Bolivia, just before 2pm local time on Saturday
Alba had been working with an organisation called Psychologists Without Borders and had planned to travel around Bolivia after finishing a six-month placement before the Covid-19 crisis.
The four passengers were due to take a second repatriation flight home from Santa Cruz later this week.
The two Bolivians on the plane that went down, a Beechcraft Baron B-55, have been named as Favio Jerez and Richard Cossio.
Bolivian Defence Minister Luis Fernando Lopez Julio expressed his condolences to the dead in a tweet.
The two Bolivians on the plane that went down, a Beechcraft Baron B-55, have been named as Favio Jerez and Richard Cossio (File picture of a Beechcraft Baron B-55)
The two Bolivians on the plane that went down, a Beechcraft Baron B-55, have been named as Favio Jerez and Richard Cossio (File picture of a Beechcraft Baron B-55)
An investigation into the accident is now underway.
Pictures from the scene showed the plane ripped in half in half and in flames.
Local reports said one of the six survived the initial impact but died on the way to hospital.
A Bolivian Air Force spokesman said in a statement: 'At 13.42 on May 2 a Beechcraft Baron B-55 plane which was undertaking a humanitarian flight, suffered an accident when it was transporting Spanish nationals for repatriation from Trinidad to Santa Cruz.
'Tragically the two crew and four passengers on board lost their lives.' 

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