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Added on the 27/01/2020 10:53:23 - Copyright : France 24 EN
As the Miami Super Bowl Committee hosts a news conference to celebrate opening week of the NFL's Super Bowl in the city, Mayor of Miami-Dade County Carlos Gimenez holds a moment of silence following the death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant. SOUNDBITE
Flower lie on the ground and camera crews line the sidewalk as the sun rises over Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas, California. The scene is close to the site of the helicopter crash that killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant. Officials have shut down roads leading to the site because of a throng of visitors trying to get there. Bryant, 41, was traveling Sunday with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other passengers and crew when their helicopter slammed into a rugged hillside in thick fog in Calabasas, west of Los Angeles. There were no survivors. IMAGES
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