Mexican Officials Killed in Plane Crash
A small plane carrying Mexican government officials crashed in the fog south of the coastal city of Ensenada in Baja California on Tuesday afternoon, killing all nine people aboard, police said.
Among those believed dead were Leobardo Roa Helmecke, formerly the state president of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Baja California, according to Ensenada municipal police.
The others on board, six men and two women, were mostly employees of the federal and state government on a work-related flight, a police official said.
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