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COLOMBIA NEWS
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BOGOTA (AFP) - A plane crash during a lightning storm in Colombia Monday killed one person and injured another 120, with officials calling it a "miracle" that more people did not die in the accident.
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Jetliner with 131 people aboard crashes on landing and breaks into three pieces on a Colombian island — but officials say only one passenger was killedPlane Crash in Colombia
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Jetliner with 131 aboard crashes on landing and breaks into three pieces on Colombian island — but officials say only one passenger was killedPlane Crash in Colombia
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URGENT: A Boeing 737 jetliner with 131 aboard crashes on landing and breaks into three pieces on Colombian island — but officials say only one passenger was killed.Jetliner Crashes in Colombia
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At least one person was killed and 120 injured Monday when a plane crash-landed after being struck by lightning at an airport on the Colombian island of San Andres, aviation officials said.Ronald Tascon, director of Colombia's civil aviation authority, said some 120 people on the Aires airline flight carrying 131 people were hurt in the accident, five of them seriously.Authorities said the Boeing 737-700 plane plane was struck by lightning upon its descent toward Gustavo Rojas Pinilla airport on the popular resort island.
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A Boeing 737 passenger jet with 131 people on board was struck by lightning while landing at a Colombian island on Monday, breaking it into three pieces and killing one person.
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) - At least one person was killed and 120 injured Monday when a plane crash-landed after being struck by lightning at an airport on the Colombian island of San Andres, aviation officials said.
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CARACAS (AFP) - Colombia's visiting head of Congress, Armando Benedetti, blamed Thursday's car bombing in Bogota that injured nine people on far-right radicals, in an interview with Telesur regional television.
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Colombia's visiting head of Congress, Armando Benedetti, blamed Thursday's car bombing in Bogota that injured nine people on far-right radicals, in an interview with Telesur regional television.No group has claimed responsibility for the predawn blast that also damaged hundreds of buildings in central Bogota and came only four days after conservative President Juan Manuel Santos was sworn into office."On a personal level, I believe it was carried out by forces of the extreme right," Benedetti told the Caracas-based Latin American television station.
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Colombia's FARC rebels Sunday released a Japanese businessman they had kidnapped in March, after police were hot on his trail in the countryside near Cali, Police Chief Miguel Bojaca told AFP.Masao Tsutsui, 69, was taken "for medical tests in Cali, where he met with his family," Bojaca said in a telephone interview.The businessman was kidnapped March 23 near Cali by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, who demanded a 540,000-dollar ransom for his release. Bojaca said initial reports show the ransom was not paid.
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BOGOTA (AFP) - Colombia's FARC rebels Sunday released a Japanese businessman they had kidnapped in March, after police were hot on his trail in the countryside near Cali, Police Chief Miguel Bojaca told AFP.
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Colombia's FARC rebels Sunday released a Japanese businessman they had kidnapped in March, after police were hot on his trail in the countryside near Cali, Police Chief Miguel Bojaca told AFP.
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A previously unknown monkey species has been discovered in the Colombian jungle.
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An amateur cameraman captured the rescue of two girls from a taxi stranded by flash floods in the city of Barranquilla.
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Two girls stranded in a taxi by flash flooding in northern Colombia have been rescued by a brave passer-by - and the heroic deed was filmed by an amateur cameraman.
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Two girls stranded in a taxi by flash flooding in northern Colombia have been rescued by a brave passer-by - and the heroic deed was filmed by an amateur cameraman.
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Two girls stranded in a taxi by flash flooding in northern Colombia have been rescued by a brave passer-by - and the heroic deed was filmed by an amateur cameraman.
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Two girls stranded in a taxi by flash flooding in northern Colombia were rescued by a brave passerby - and the heroic deed was filmed by an amateur cameraman.
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