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Chapecoense Plane Crash Survivor Escapes Death Again Following Deadly Bus Crash

A survivor of the 2016 plane crash that killed 71 people, including most of the Chapecoense soccer team, walked away from a deadly bus crash in Bolivia on Wednesday.

Thirty-year-old aviation technician Erwin Tumiri told Bolivian newspaper Los Tiempos that he felt "blessed by God" after crawling from the wreckage of a crash that reportedly left 21 people dead.

"I crawled out, my knee was injured, I sat down and said, 'Again, I cannot believe it," Tumiri said.

Tumiri was on his way to work when his bus plunged 500 feet down a hillside in a crash that left 30 others injured.