28-Yr-Old Popular Brazilian Pop Star, Killed In Plane Crash While On His Way To Girlfriend's Birthday Party

Gabriel Diniz, one of Brazil’s most successful current pop stars, has been killed in a plane crash, aged 28.

His plane took off from the city of Salvador in Bahia state on Monday 27 May, bound for Maceió further up the east coast, but it crashed in bad weather in Porto do Mato. Diniz was killed along with two pilots, Linaldo Xavier and Abraão Farias. The star had reportedly been travelling to his girlfriend to celebrate her birthday.