The Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos has been killed in an air crash, robbing the country of one of its rising political stars and changing the outlook for the most hotly contested national elections for more than a decade.
A private jet carrying Campos, of the centre-left PSB party, crashed in bad weather in the coastal city of Santos on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board, according to São Paulo’s fire department.
While opinion polls had shown that Campos was the third-strongest presidential candidate before October’s vote, analysts had expected the business-friendly leftist to gain more votes as his official television campaign got under way.
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