Colombian rescue teams found on Tuesday the dead bodies of a pilot, a mayor and the mayor's family,sought since Friday after the plane they were traveling in went missing in northeast Colombia.
The Disaster Prevention, Care and Recovery Department said in a statement that pilot Captain Pedro Angulo had died with the mayor of Murindo, his wife and their three children aged 13, 17 and 18.
"Search work was focused on Urrao and allowed rescuers to find the small plane on a slope close to the Frontino Moor," which at 4km high is the highest point of the Antioquia Department, the statement said.
The Heligolfo plane had left Murindo at 6 p.m. local time (2300 GMT) on Thursday headed for the city of Medellin, but disappeared from radar over Urrao just before it was due to land. Rescuers waited a day to begin their search due to rebels in the region.
The statement named the mayor as Elias Palacio, his wife as Maria Mosquera and their children as Alixon, Jonathon and Juan David.
Frontino links the Central and Western mountains that divide Colombia. In 1993 an aircraft entering Colombia from Panama crashed in the same area.
Source:Xinhua
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