Mexico's Secretary of the Interior, Francisco Blake Mora, has died in a helicopter crash outside Mexico City, officials say.
The helicopter was travelling to Cuernavaca in neighbouring Morelos state for a meeting of prosecutors when it went down.
All eight people on board were killed. It is not clear what caused the crash.
A helicopter carrying Mexico’s second most powerful official and seven other passengers crashed in fog on Friday and the government said all aboard were killed. There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash, which shocked Mexico and could signal a severe blow to the country’s battle against a drug-and-crime scourge that has shaped President Felipe Calderón’s years in office. The top official aboard, Francisco Blake Mora, was secretary of the interior, a position that often made him the public face of the country’s battle against drug traffickers.
UPDATE: UH-OH:
REPORTS SAY THE MISSILES ARE DEFINITELY ON THE LOOSE! (OF COURSE, THEIR PRIME TARGET WILL BE AIRLINERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - PREFERABLY - FROM THEIR POV - EL AL'S.)
UPDATE: IN THE VIDEO BELOW, THE TAIL IS INTACT AND QUITE A DISTANCE FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE CABIN. SEEMS LIKE IT WAS SHOT DOWN TO ME.
2 comments:
New battleground: al Qaeda versus Occupy!! :)
Al Qaeda has moved next door under Obama's watch.
Anyone who has been watching events in Mexico (and South America in general) should have known this. Since when do Mexican gangs behead people.
Fuck Obama.
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