Mexican security minister in helicopter accident
Posted on: Wednesday, 21 September 2005, 14:05 CDT
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Mexico's public security minister, one of President Vicente Fox's closest aides, went down on Wednesday and is missing, the presidential spokesman told local radio.
The minister, Ramon Martin Huerta, who was in charge of fighting crime in Fox's government, apparently was traveling in Mexico state with several other government officials when his helicopter went down. It was not immediately clear whether any of the officials were hurt.
Fox's spokesman Ruben Aguilar told reporters the helicopter appeared to have come down in the state of Mexico, and said air force helicopters were searching for it.
One local radio station, citing police sources, said the helicopter, which left an army base in Mexico City around midday, had made an emergency landing but the passengers were unharmed.
Martin Huerta, a former governor of the central state of Guanajuato, is a close friend of the president.
Source: REUTERS
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