MEXICO – The governor of Mexico’s central Puebla state, Martha Erika Alonso, has died in a helicopter crash, just days after being sworn into office.
Her husband, Senator Rafael Moreno Valle, and two pilots were also killed. Reports say there was a third passenger on board, who also died.
Monday’s accident happened shortly after the aircraft took off from the state capital of Puebla.
Alonso became Puebla’s first female governor after hotly contested polls.
The 45-year-old was a member of the centre-right PAN party.
The deaths of the governor and her husband were confirmed by Mexico’s new President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. (BBC)
