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Brazil presidential candidate Campos dies in air crash The Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, 49, has died in a plane crash, party members and local officials say. The plane carrying Mr Campos came down in bad weather in a residential area of the port city of Santos, in Sao Paulo state. Local reports say four other passengers and the two pilots were also killed. President Dilma Rousseff has declared three days of national mourning and cancelled campaign events. The whole of Brazil is in mourning, Ms Rousseff said in a statement. We lost a great Brazilian today, Eduardo Campos. We lost a great comrade, she added, calling her rival a great political leader. No words Ms Rousseffs Vice President, Michel Temer, also expressed his regret over the death of Mr Campos, who had been running third in the polls for Octobers election. He said there were no words to describe the tragedy that has befallen Brazilian politics today. Eduardo Campos was a politician with principles and values passed down through his family and carried with dignity and honour throughout his career in parliament and the executive, he added in a statement
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:25:42 +0000

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