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More Than 100 Feared Dead After Plane Crashes Near Havana Airport

The Boeing 737 crashed midday Friday near José Martí International Airport. "It seems that there is a high number of victims," Cuban President Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said.

Updated at 3:43 p.m. ET

A plane carrying more than 100 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Havana's José Martí International Airport on Friday. The plane, a Boeing 737, had

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