Plane crash kills nine

MEXICO: Nine people have been killed when a plane belonging to a politician running for governor in a Mexican state crashed Sunday, his staff said. But Roberto Borge, the powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)’s candidate for governor in the state of Quintana Roo, was not aboard at the time, said spokesman Gabriel Mendicutti.

“There were nine people, unfortunately all dead,” said Mendicutti. “Roberto Borge was not aboard but we have found the airplane.”

Borge is running for office as part of a coalition along with two smaller parties, the Mexican Green Ecology party (PVEM) and the New Alliance party (PANAL).

On Sunday Borge campaigned in rural towns in southern Quintana Roo — a Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan peninsula — then flew to the resort town of Cancun, said Mario Castro, a regional campaign coordinator.

AFP