Brazil’s president announces three days of mourning after tragic Chapecoense plane crash

The President of Brazil has officially declared three days of mourning following the aircraft crash which killed 76 people this morning.

A plane carrying the Chapecoense football team, along with support staff and journalists, to the city of Medellin, Colombia, crashed early this morning, with a loss of at least 76 lives, from 81 passengers and nine crew on board. And now President Michel Temer has announced the official mourning period, as well as making the Brazilian air force available to help transfer families as well as the bodies of the victims. His full statement read:

"In this sad time when tragedy has befallen dozens of Brazilian families, I express my solidarity. We are putting all the means to help families and give all possible assistance. The aircraft and the Foreign Ministry have already been triggered. The government will do everything possible to ease the pain of friends and family of sports and national journalism."

Colombia's civil aviation department revealed the plane crashed near Rionegro on it's way to Medellin. They initially announced that six passengers - three players, two crew members, and one journalist - survived the crash but one of those survivors tragically died on the way to the hospital. https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/803520548705681408

The football world was keen to pay it's respects to the victims.

https://twitter.com/ChapecoenseReal/status/803541846072983552 https://twitter.com/nacionaloficial/status/803476033982889988 https://twitter.com/ManUtd/status/803531929148604416 https://twitter.com/realmadriden/status/803543606745329664 https://twitter.com/LFC/status/803536655776944128 https://twitter.com/FCBarcelona/status/803533922894286848 https://twitter.com/PlanetaBoca/status/803544188340109312 https://twitter.com/BVB/status/803542690168184832 https://twitter.com/WayneRooney/status/803533322022424576 https://twitter.com/SanLorenzo/status/803544879968227328 https://twitter.com/neymarjr/status/803538371222138880 https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/803521623370432512 https://twitter.com/Atleti/status/803533896394674177 https://twitter.com/thibautcourtois/status/803524009736499200 https://twitter.com/SergioRamos/status/803540898097299456 https://twitter.com/ivanrakitic/status/803538647962238976 https://twitter.com/acmilan/status/803532873777184768 https://twitter.com/JLSanchez78/status/803540203021418498 Remarkably moving.