A aircraft carrying 15 people, including a Colombian lawmaker crashed near the Venezuelan border .

A aircraft carrying 15 people, including a Colombian lawmaker, Diogenes Quintero, crashed in a mountainous region near the Venezuelan border on January 28.

According to AFP, the aircraft departed from the border city of Cúcuta and lost contact with air traffic control shortly before it was scheduled to land in the nearby town of Ocaña at about 5:00 p.m. GMT.

 “There are no survivors,” an official of the aviation authority told AFP.

 The plane was carrying 13 passengers and two crew members.

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