Death toll in Mexico helicopter crash rises to 13

Death toll in Mexico helicopter crash rises to 13

The death toll in Mexico military helicopter crash has risen to thirteen in the southern state of Oaxaca.

State’s attorney general’s office said in a statement that the helicopter was carrying Mexico’s interior minister and the state governor surveying damages from an earthquake.

The senior officials survived but 12 people at the scene were killed and another died later in a hospital. (Reuters)