15 people were killed in the crash, but Navarrete and fellow politician Alejandro Murat Hinojosa escaped with comparatively minor injuries.
(meta data) TITLE: Mexican helicopter crash: 13 people killed as officials survey quake damage - CNN (meta data) AUTHOR: Chandrika Narayan and Natalie Gallón, CNN Breaking News # 13 killed in Mexico after helicopter crashes as officials tour quake area By Chandrika Narayan and Natalie Gallón, CNN Updated 0458 GMT (1258 HKT) February 18, 2018 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Video footage shows the aftermath of Friday's helicopter crash in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. (CNN)A military helicopter carrying officials surveying earthquake damage crashed Friday night in the southeastern Mexican state of Oaxaca, killing 13 people, Mexican officials said. The helicopter was attempting to land at an airfield in Santiago Jamiltepec when it crashed in a nearby field on top of two vehicles, a spokeswoman for the Oaxaca attorney general's office told CNN.The 13 who were killed were all on the ground, spokeswoman Lizbeth Hernandez Bravo said. Twelve died at the crash site, while one died later at the hospital, the state attorney general's office said. Three of the dead were children, the office said. Fifteen others were injured. The helicopter was surveying the damage from the quake, and was carrying Mexican Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete Prida and Oaxaca's governor, Alejandro Murat. Both men survived and only suffered "slight concussions," the Interior Ministry tweeted. Read MoreThe 7.2 magnitude earthquake and a magnitude 5.8 aftershock -- both with epicenters in Oaxaca state -- struck the region Friday, the US Geological Survey reported. Magnitude 7.2 earthquake jolts southeastern MexicoMexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said the crash took place while the helicopter was landing. "Unfortunately, people on the ground lost their lives and others were wounded. My condolences to their families and my wishes for a prompt recovery to those injured," the President tweeted. When addressing the helicopter crash on Twitter, Peña Nieto said there were no reports of fatalities directly linked to the quake and aftershock. Efrain de la Cruz, mayor of Santiago Jamiltepec, was on the phone with CNN en Español's Mario González when the crash occurred. "A helicopter carrying the governor and the others went down," he said. "A helicopter is down, a helicopter is down. Oh my God! It's a military helicopter," Cruz said. "This can't be possible, oh my God."<div class="pg-comme
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Alfonso Navarrete Prida
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Alfonso Navarrete Prida (born 13 October 1963) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as the Secretary of the Interior in 2018. He previously served as the Secretary of Labor of Mexico from 2012 to 2018. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico. Navarrete was on board the helicopter which crashed in February 2018 while surveying the damage done by the recent earthquake.