At least 22 Brazilian journalists were in the place that crashed in Colombia

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At least 22 Brazilian journalists were in the plane that crashed Monday night in Columbia, reports EFE agency.

Most journalists were employees of Fox, TV Globo and other radio and television networks.

They were traveling to Colombia to transmit the first competition of Copa Sudamericana, set to take place at the Atletico Nacional Medellin.

The football competition was supposed to take place between the local team and the Brazilian team Chapecoense.

The aircraft, a British Aerospace 146, owned by Bolivian airline Lamia, crashed about 50 kilometers from the Medellín airport José María Córdova.

On board, there were 81 people: 72 passengers and 9 crew members. There are five or six survivors, one of whom is a journalist.

The Colombian forces confirmed on Tuesday that 75 people died and six survived the plane crash from Monday from Medellin, the second largest city in Colombia.

The aircraft crashed in a mountainous area near Medellin. The Chapecoense football team was traveling in the Colombian city to attend the Copa Sudamericana final match against local team Atletico Nacional.

The six survivors are three Brazilian football players from Chapecoense – Danilo, Alan Jackson Follmann and Ruschel, two crew members and a journalist. The plane took off from the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo and made a stopover in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, before heading to Colombia.

Elkin Ospina, the mayor of La Ceja, a village located near the area of the accident, told AFP that the tragedy occurred because the plane ran out of fuel.