MEXICO CITY, (APP/AFP): A gang brought down
a helicopter during a police operation in Mexico’s troubled western state of Michoacan on Tuesday, killing the pilot and three officers, the governor said.
The aircraft was backing an operation to arrest leaders of criminal groups when it was the “official helicopter was downed” in an area with rough terrain, Governor Silvano Aureoles wrote on Twitter.
Aureoles did not say how the helicopter was shot down.
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Criminals down police helicopter in Mexico, four dead
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