A small airplane crashed on Wednesday morning within the central Colombian division of Boyaca, killing six folks together with a former senator, officers mentioned.
The plane departed from the town of Villavicencio at 7:40 a.m. certain for Guaymaral Airport, in Colombia’s capital metropolis of Bogota, with 5 occupants plus the pilot in a Cessna T210N plane.
“Preliminary information indicates that all occupants were found lifeless,” reported the company accountable for regulating civil aviation within the nation.
The deceased are the pilot Eliodoro Alvarez and the 5 passengers: Nohora Tovar, Oscar Rodriguez, Felipe Carreno, Guillermo Perez and Dimas Barrero. All of them have been leaders of the Democratic Center, the conservative political social gathering that was based by former president Alvaro Uribe Velez in 2013.
Nohora Tovar, 55, had been a senator between 2014 and 2018 for that social gathering. She had additionally been Colombia’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Felipe Carreno was working for governor of the Meta division within the native regional elections in October.
Former President Alvaro Uribe regretted the news.
“Terrible news about the fatal accident of our colleagues from Meta, Nora Tovar and her husband Guillermo. Pending more information on this tragedy,” he mentioned on Twitter.
In an announcement, the Democratic Center additionally lamented the dying of its members.
“The greatest tragedy mourns the Democratic Center party with the plane crash that produced the death of our former senator Nohora Tovar, her husband Guillermo Perez, departmental coordinator of the party in Meta, our deputy Dimas Barrero and councilman Oscar Rodríguez, the candidate for governor of Meta doctor Felipe Carreno, and commander Eliodoro Alvarez, pilot of the aircraft.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
