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The Hercules military transport plane crashed minutes after take-off near Colombia's southern border with Peru.
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Sixty-six members of the Colombian security forces were killed on Monday, when the Hercules C-130 transport plane came down shortly after take-off near Colombia's border with Peru.
Locals were first to the scene, pulling out dozens of injured survivors from the burning wreckage and ferrying them to hospitals on the back of their motorbikes.
An investigation is under way to determine the cause of the accident.
A total of 128 people were on board the transport plane, which was headed from the town of Puerto Leguízamo to Puerto Asís.
In a series of posts on social media, Colombian President Gustavo Petro appeared to blame antiquated military hardware for the accident.
Talking about the victims, but without mentioning the Hercules plane directly, he wrote: "This piece of scrap metal was bought in 2020 and came down, let's ask why".
In an earlier post, he blamed "bureaucratic problems" for holding up his plans to modernise the armed forces' equipment and their aircraft.
"I will allow no further delays, the lives of our young people are at stake," he wrote.
Mobile phone footage shared on social media showed the plane losing height shortly after take-off, followed by a large plume of smoke rising from the crash site and the sound of explosions.
Colombia's defence minister said the sound came from ammunition on board blowing up in the flames.
He added that there was no indication that the plane had come under attack from any of the armed groups which are active in the Putumayo region.
A local farmer told AFP news agency that he had heard a loud bang before the Hercules crashed into trees near his home. "I felt an explosion in the air and, when I looked up, the plane was flying close to the house on my plot," Noé Mota said.
According to the latest death toll, 58 army personnel, six members of the air force and two police officers were killed in the crash, Commande
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