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Mexican minister dead after crash

MEXICAN Interior Minister Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash on Friday, a blow to the government as it fights powerful drug cartels.

Television images showed the scattered wreckage of the helicopter on a green hillside south of the capital where Blake and the seven others on board were killed.

President Felipe Calderon said conditions were cloudy when the helicopter came down so that an accident looked probable.

But in a televised address, he said no explanations for the crash could be ruled out as he paid tribute to Blake, calling him "a great Mexican."

"The investigations will be exhaustive and will consider all the possible hypotheses," Calderon said.

Mexico is locked in a brutal conflict against drug cartels that has killed 45,000 people in the last five years.

Blake was considered a key member of Calderon's security team.





 

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