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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A plane carrying five Americans and a Panamanian on an anti-drug mission crashed Saturday in a remote part of northern Colombia, killing four of the occupants and seriously injuring the other two, authorities said.
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Panama's National Air Service said in a statement that officer Lt. Lloyd Nunez was killed in the crash along with three Americans. It said the accident occurred during an anti-drug operation along the border of the two countries and that Panama was assisting Colombia in the rescue operation.
colorado vacation home rentals Santiago Castro, director of Colombia's Civil Aviation agency, said the small plane wasn't civilian so he couldn't provide details about its route. Olivares said he didn't know the origin or destination of the flight.
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