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Added on the 30/04/2021 09:49:58 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Madrid, Apr 30 (EFE) .- (Camera: Ángel Herrera) The Armed Forces plane in charge of repatriating the bodies of the two Spanish journalists murdered in Burkina Faso arrived on Friday at the Torrejón de Ardoz air base (Madrid ) where their families and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense, Arancha González Laya and Margarita Robles, were waiting for them.FOOTAGE OF THE ARRIVAL.
Madrid, Apr 30 (EFE) .- (Camera: Ángel Herrera) A Spanish Armed Forces airplane carrying the bodies of two Spanish journalists and an Irish conservationist who were killed in an ambush in Burkina Faso this week landed at an airbase just outside Madrid on Friday morning.FOOTAGE OF THE ARRIVAL.
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