Plane carrying 160 crashes in Venezuela

PARIS: A Colombian jet carrying about 160 people, mainly French tourists, crashed on Tuesday in the mountains of western Venezuela and officials said there were no survivors. The West Caribbean Airways plane, flying from Panama to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, came down in a remote area of the Sierra de Perija mountains after suffering engine problems, officials said. Rescue services started recovering bodies from the hillsides as an investigation started into the disaster in the western state of Zulia, on the frontier with Colombia. “A great number of bodies have been evacuated,” said Major Javier Perez Pacheco, the head of Venezuela’s Search and Rescue Service. afp

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