54-year-old wreckage of plane crash discovered

Chilean mountaineers have found the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Andes 54 years ago, killing 24 people, including eight members of a professional football team.

The group said they came across the wreckage at an altitude of about 10,500ft about 350km south of Santiago. Expedition member Leonardo Albornoz said they are keeping the exact site secret to prevent looting.

The disappearance of the Douglas DC-3, carrying members of the top-flight Chilean team Green Cross on April 3, 1961, was one of the great unsolved mysteries in the country.