Colombia plane crash: Chapecoense soccer player Jackson Follmann has leg amputated

By Megan Levy
Updated November 30 2016 - 11:13am, first published 10:16am
Footballers from Brazilian team Chapecoense on board the plane that crashed in Colombia. Photo: @AndresFelipe/Twitter
Footballers from Brazilian team Chapecoense on board the plane that crashed in Colombia. Photo: @AndresFelipe/Twitter

A soccer player who survived a plane crash that killed 71 people in Colombia's worst air disaster in decades has had one of his legs amputated and remains in a critical condition in hospital, but his family says it is a miracle he is still alive.

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