Sudden­ly it starte­d swayin­g violen­tly and fell like a rockSANTIAGO JAMILTEPEC, MEXICO: They thought the worst was over. Unlike previous earthquakes that killed hundreds or thousands of people in Mexico, this one claimed no lives and left minimal destruction. That is where they were when the Mexican interior minister and Oaxaca governor arrived in a military helicopter to survey the disaster zone. But the helicopter plunged straight into the crowd on the ground, its rotor blades hacking people to bits. Mexico helicopter crash kills 13 on ground in wake of earthquakeForty-year-old Lorenzo Zarate’s mother, Maria Margarita Sanchez, was so shattered she could barely speak.

Source: The Express Tribune February 19, 2018 07:07 UTC