Colombia Plane Crash Kills 15, Including Congressman
A small passenger plane crashed in northern Colombia on Thursday, killing all 15 people on board, including a member of the House of Representatives, according to Colombia's transportation ministry. Rescue crews located the crash site in a mountainous rural area of Norte de Santander, near the Venezuelan border, and "regrettably confirmed that there were no survivors," officials said, according to Sky News.
Among the deceased were Diogenes Quintero, 36, a member of the House of Representatives for Catatumbo, and Carlos Salcedo, who was running for Congress, Sky News reported. The plane carried 13 passengers and two crew members. The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.
The crash occurred in a week marked by several other significant global events. In Sicily, a landslide triggered by heavy rain forced the evacuation of 1,500 people after homes began collapsing off a cliff edge. Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited the town of Niscemi, where dozens of houses were left "uninhabitable" and teetering on the edge of a cliff, Sky News reported.
Meanwhile, Moscow experienced its heaviest snowfall in over 200 years this month, according to Moscow State University meteorologists, Euronews reported. Images from the city showed residents struggling through heavy piles of snow, and commuter trains were delayed, causing long traffic jams. "January was a cold and unusually snowy month in Moscow," Euronews noted.
In other news, Ukraine's Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on Thursday that Kyiv was in contact with Elon Musk's SpaceX over allegations that Russian drones were using internet from Starlink satellites during attacks on Ukrainian cities, Euronews reported. "Within hours of Russian drones with Starlink connectivity appearing over Ukrainian cities, the Ministry of Defence team promptly contacted SpaceX and proposed ways to resolve the problem," Fedorov said in a social media post, according to Euronews.
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