Mexican Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete said that the helicopter on which he was traveling to reach the area hit by the violent earthquake last night crashed near the epicenter of the earthquake, in the south of the country, and that people earth may have been killed. "I learned that there are people who have lost their lives," said the minister, without specifying the number of victims. Navarrete was traveling with the governor of the state of Oaxaca, where the earthquake occurred. "Several people" who were aboard the aircraft were injured, the minister added.
The 7,2 magnitude earthquake, felt up to Mexico City, according to the findings of the US seismological agency Usgs, had its epicenter at a depth of 25 km and its epicenter about 30 km from San Agustín Chayuco in the state of Oaxaca.
The earthquake would last over a minute. He was also warned in Guatemala, according to local media.