Mexico interior Minister Dies in capital Plane Crash: official

Mexico City: Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino died in a small plane crash in the centre of Mexico City, a city official told AFP, citing the public security ministry.

"The interior minister died in the crash," the official said, declining to be named.

The public security ministry said that at least three people had died when the small plane carrying nine people crashed in the center of Mexico city late last night.

"Firemen, police and ambulances are on site. It was a plane travelling from San Luis Potosi (central Mexico) with nine passengers aboard. Some cars burned too," a ministry official told AFP.

The city's mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, said five seriously injured people had been transfered to hospitals and that a fire set off by the accident was under control.

"The explosion was enormous, the flames rose higher than the buildings on Reforma," the capital's main avenue, a witness told AFP.

The cause of the accident, which occurred shortly before 7:00 pm (0530IST), was unclear.


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