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US-backed drug flight crashes in Colombia; 4 dead Oct 5th 2013, 23:05 BOGOTA, Colombia — A plane carrying five Americans and a Panamanian on an anti-drug mission crashed Saturday in a remote, jungle region in northern Colombia, killing four of the occupants and injuring the other two.   U.S. Southern Command confirmed that three Americans were killed and two survived when the DH-8 aircraft went down near the city of Capurgana close to the border with Panama. The Panamanian on board died and the two injured Americans were rescued by Colombian soldiers and taken to a hospital in the capital, Bogota, it said.   Gen. Nicasio de Jesus Martinez, commander of the Colombian army's Brigade IV whose troops traveled to the accident scene, rule... Keep on reading: US-backed drug flight crashes in Colombia; 4 dead Media files: colombia-bogota-map.jpg (image/jpeg)

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