Soccer: Chapecoense mourn death of reporter who survived plane crash


  • Football
  • Wednesday, 27 Mar 2019

FILE PHOTO: Brazilian radio journalist Rafael Henzel, lies on a stretcher as he arrives at the hospital in Brazil, after he survived a plane crash with Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense aboard, in Chapeco, Brazil December 13, 2016. REUTERS/Diego Vara

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Rafael Henzel, a radio reporter who survived the crash that killed most of the Chapecoense soccer team in 2016, died of a heart attack on Tuesday, the Brazilian club said. He was 45.

Globo reported that Henzel collapsed while playing football in the southern city of Chapeco and despite being rushed to hospital he died soon after.

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