Body from plane wreckage identified as footballer Sala – UK police
By Reuters
08 February 2019 |
12:29 pm
A body retrieved from the wreckage of a crashed plane in the English Channel has been formally identified as Cardiff City's Argentina-born soccer player Emiliano Sala, British police said in a statement on Thursday.
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