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Eugene

(61,974 posts) Tue Dec 25, 2018, 01:26 PM Dec 2018

Mexico's Puebla governor Martha Erika Alonso dies in helicopter crash

Source: BBC

Mexico's Puebla governor Martha Erika Alonso dies in helicopter crash

25 December 2018

A Mexican governor who was sworn in earlier this month and her senator husband have died in a helicopter crash in the central state of Puebla.

The aircraft carrying Puebla Gov Martha Erika Alonso and Sen Rafael Moreno Valle came down shortly after it took off.

The two pilots were killed. Reports say a third passenger also died.

Officials say the helicopter may have suffered an unspecified failure. An investigation has been opened.

Ms Alonso, 45, had been sworn in on 14 December as Puebla's first female governor, after hotly contested polls.

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The aircraft crashed 10 minutes after take-off

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Mexico's Puebla governor Martha Erika Alonso dies in helicopter crash (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2018 OP

Rest in peace shenmue Dec 2018 #1

She recently took office after a violent, hotly contested election. Quemado Dec 2018 #2

shenmue

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1. Rest in peace

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Tue Dec 25, 2018, 01:58 PM

Dec 2018

Quemado

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2. She recently took office after a violent, hotly contested election.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Dec 25, 2018, 03:27 PM

Dec 2018

Alonso, from the center-right National Action party (PAN), took office earlier this month after a violent, hotly contested election. An electoral tribunal had to validate the results months after the vote amid accusations of fraud. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/25/mexican-governor-and-senator-killed-in-helicopter-crash

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