Guatemalan ministers killed in air crash

Guatemala's Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez and his deputy Edgar Hernandez are killed with two other people in a helicopter crash, says a presidential spokesman.

Guatemala's Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez and his deputy Edgar Hernandez were killed with two other people in a helicopter crash, a presidential spokesman said.

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The chopper was heading to the northern province of Peten when it crashed Friday at Purulha in Alta Verapaz province in bad weather, spokesman Fernando Barillas told reporters. There was no survivor, he said.