Eight dead after plane crashes into homes in Colombia

Firefighters work in the area where a small planecrashed into a house in Medellín (Picture: Reuters)An airplane has crashed in a residential neighbourhood in Colombia after ‘an engine failure’.Authorities confirmed at least eight people have died in the incident in the central city of Medellín, the second largest in the South American country.Six passengers and the two pilots perished in the wreck this morning, but it wasn’t immediately clear if more people were o