25 bodies found in Colombia air crash,5 rescued alive: Official

The bodies of 25 people have been found at the site in Colombia where a lAMIA airliner crashed with 81 people aboard, including members of a Brazilian football team, a local mayor said today.

Five others survived, he said.

One of the survivors was Alan Ruschel, a defender for the Chapecoense Real, which was to have played in a final of the Copa Sudamericana tomorrow against a Colombian team, the head of Colombia's civil aviation agency, Alfredo Bocanegra, told reporters.

Elkin Osorio, the mayor of the nearby town of la Ceja, said that searchers had found 25 bodies but that there were five survivors.