Eduardo Campos, presidential candidate from Brazilian Socialist Party, died in a plane crash yesterday.
The plane carrying him crashed in a residential area of Santos in Sao Paulo, reports BBC. Locals said it was raining at the time of the crash.
It was flying from Santos Dumont airport to Guaruja when hit by bad weather. All the nine people including two pilots and his entourage on board died in the accident that took place at 9:50am local time, reports A Folha de S Paulo, a local newspaper.
The former governor of Pernambuco state was running third in the polls for October’s election.
