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Brazilian Presidential candidate Eduardo Campos dies in plane crash

India Blooms News Service | | Aug 14, 2014, at 06:18 am

#Eduardo Campos dead plane crash

Santos, Aig 13 (IBNS): Brazilian Presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was killed in a plane crash in Santos city on Wednesday, media reports said.

He was 49.

"The plane carrying Mr Campos came down in bad weather in a residential area of the port city of Santos, in Sao Paulo state," BBC reported.

According to reports, four other passengers and two pilots, who were present in the plane apart from Campos, were killed in the crash.

Following the death of the leader of the Brazilian Socialist Party, country's President Dilma Rousseff has declared three days of national mourning.

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