Brazil's
president bestowed honors on the dead as Air Force troops unloaded 50
coffins flown in overnight from Colombia, site of the disaster this week
that killed 71 people and wiped out a rural soccer team.
Chapeco,
its streets wet with rain and buildings draped in the green of its
devastated club, turned out to receive the bodies today.
Mourners also attended a wake at a local stadium for
members of the team, which ascended from minor leagues in recent years
to reach the championship of a South American tournament.
Monday's disaster shocked soccer fans the world over and plunged Brazil, South America's biggest nation, into mourning.
The BAe146 regional airliner operated by Bolivian charter
company LAMIA had radioed that it was running out of fuel before
smashing into a hillside outside the Colombian city of Medellin.
Only
six people survived, including just three members of the soccer side
Chapecoense en route to the Copa Sudamericana final, the biggest game in
its history.
100,000 turn out to see coffins of Brazilian football team killed in plane crash
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