The World : Crash Kills Brazil Official
A Brazilian Cabinet minister and eight other people were killed when an air force jet carrying the victims exploded six seconds after takeoff from Carajas, 950 miles northeast of Brasilia, the Aeronautics Ministry said. Agrarian Reform Minister Marcos Freire, 56, was returning to the capital on the air force jet, identified as a British-built HS-125, with the president of the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform, four advisers and three crew members when the plane exploded, an air force spokesman said. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
