Mexico Police Down Drug-Carrying Plane

Mexican police shot down a plane carrying more than half a ton of cocaine, killing two suspected drug traffickers and arresting two others, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office said Wednesday.

She said the twin-engine Turbo Commander aircraft was downed by police Sunday as it attempted to take off from a clandestine airstrip in northern Sonora state, near the U.S. border.

The plane’s cargo included a 1,500-pound shipment of cocaine bound for the United States, the spokeswoman said. The two survivors of the crash were identified as a Bolivian and a Mexican.