The plane went down shortly before noon in the municipality of Morelos after taking off from the town of Calera en route to Mexico City
MEXICO CITY – Six
people who were traveling in a small plane belonging to the Mexican Attorney
General’s Office died Tuesday when it crashed in the northern state of
Zacatecas, authorities told Efe.“Regrettably the occupants died,” a spokesman for the AG’s office confirmed to Efe, adding that at present the identities of the victims and the cause of the accident are not known.
The plane went down shortly before noon in the municipality of Morelos after taking off from the town of Calera en route to Mexico City.
Evidently, the plane lost altitude, ultimately hitting the ground and bursting into flame in the community known as Noria de los Gringos, Milenio Television reported.
The state attorney general of Zacatecas, Arturo Nahle, confirmed the six deaths via Twitter and said that the aircraft was the same one on which federal Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam traveled to the state last month. EFE
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