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Survivor of Brazil Chapecoense plane crash walks away from coach smash
    2021-03-05  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A MAN who survived the plane crash that killed most of Brazil’s Chapecoense football team has walked away from a coach smash that claimed the lives of 21 people.

Crew member Erwin Tumiri was one of just six people to survive LaMia Flight 2933, which crashed near Medellin, Colombia, on November 28, 2016.

Seventy-one of the 77 people onboard were killed, including 19 members of the Chapecoense football team.

On Wednesday, it emerged that the 30-year-old had cheated death for a second time after a packed coach he was travelling in careered down a hillside near the Bolivian city of Cochabamba.

Tumiri survived but the death toll from the crash stands at 21 and more than 30 people are said to have been injured.

More than 50 passengers were travelling on the coach at the time of the incident.

Tumiri’s sister Lucia said her brother was in hospital but had suffered only minor injuries.

“I was very worried but he’s stable and, thank God, he’s survived once again.

He has knee injuries and scratches on his back,” she added. “I’ve spoken to him and he says he’s okay.”

Tumiri spoke to local media about his latest incredible escape: “I was feeling a bit sleepy and listening to music on my mobile phone when I heard people screaming. The only thing I could do was hold onto the seat in front of me, broaden my shoulders and lean against the window so I wouldn’t move as the coach overturned.”

Tumiri was smiling despite his ordeal as he spoke from his hospital bed with a bandage over his right knee.

“I remained conscious throughout and managed to crawl out of the vehicle when it came to a halt. I can’t believe what’s happened. I’ve got injuries to my arm and I can’t lift it up at the moment but I’ve been told I will recover mobility little by little. And I’ve got a gash on my knee, but that’s all,” he said.

Cristian Rivera Rojas, a traumatologist at the Arebalo Hospital in Cochabamba said that Tumiri will soon be able to go home.

“There are no bone or ligament injuries. What Tumiri has got is a flesh wound in his knee that needed cleaning and stitches,” Rojas said.

“He’s stable, conscious and calm and he will be able to go home soon.”

Speaking after the Chapecoense plane crash, Tumiri told Fox Sports Argentina how his training as a member of the flight crew might have helped save his life.

(SD-Agencies)

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