TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Hilda Hernandez, sister of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and five other people were killed in a helicopter crash Saturday on a mountain near the Honduran capital. Hernandez, 51, was an agronomy engineer who served as communications minister under her brother and as minister of social development during the previous administration of then-President Porfirio Lobo. The wreckage was later discovered in the mountains outside Tegucigalpa with no survivors. Reynaldo Sanchez, the head of the president’s National Party, said in a statement: “Be with God, Hilda Hernandez, a tireless fighter for our party.”No cause for the crash was given, but it happened as the country was being affected by a cold front. Nasralla has alleged fraud and is not recognizing the results, and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal has not yet declared a winner.

Source: Washington Post December 17, 2017 00:17 UTC