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Current Events => Breaking News => News From The Mexican Border => Topic started by: Chris_ on November 11, 2011, 04:11:18 PM
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Mexican interior secretary dies in helicopter crash
The Mexican government said that the country's interior secretary, Francisco Blake Mora, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot.
Presidential spokeswoman Alejandra Sota said Blake Mora was travelling to a prosecutors meeting in the neighbouring state of Morelos when the helicopter went down in southern Mexico City.
Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/11/mexico-interior-secretary-dies-crash)
The previous interior secretary was also killed in an air crash three years ago, almost on the same day: BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7709877.stm)