Overview
- The C-130 Hercules, which crashed Monday shortly after takeoff from Puerto Leguízamo near the Peruvian border, was carrying about 125 people, mostly soldiers along with some police.
- Officials now report 70 fatalities and dozens of wounded, and local authorities say the last missing person has been recovered from the remote jungle site.
- The cause remains unknown, and the defense minister said investigators have found no evidence of an attack by armed groups operating in the region.
- Survivors were airlifted or driven to nearby clinics, and residents used motorcycles to get the injured to care in the first hours after the crash.
- President Gustavo Petro called for faster modernization of military transport planes, drawing pushback from political rivals, in a debate sharpened by a recent Hercules crash in Bolivia.