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Five politicians, pilot die in Colombia plane crash

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A soldier standing next to the wreckage of an aircraft that crashed in the Amazon forest in the municipality of Solano, department of Caqueta, Colombia on May 19, 2023. PHOTO | AFP

By  AFP

Five politicians and a pilot died Wednesday in a small plane crash in central Colombia, authorities said.

The five were all members of the right-wing Centro Democratico of former president Alvaro Uribe.

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