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Brazil crowds attend funeral of late candidate Campos

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More than 100,000 people in Brazil have paid their last respects to the late presidential candidate, Eduardo Campos, who died in a plane crash on Wednesday.

They attended a funeral Mass and filled the streets of the city of Recife to follow the passage of his coffin.

Later this week, Mr Campos’s Socialist Party is expected to appoint former Environment Minister Marina Silva as a replacement candidate.

Mr Campos’s jet crashed in bad weather in Santos, near Sao Paulo.

Investigators are still trying to establish the exact causes of the crash, which killed six other people.

Mr Campos’s private plane — a Cessna 560XL — was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to the sea-side resort of Guaruja, near the city of Santos.

President Dilma Rousseff, who’s running for re-election in October, was among many prominent politicians who travelled to Recife for the funeral.

Part of the crowd booed Ms Rousseff, a former political ally with whom Mr Campos fell out last year, BBC informs.