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Guatemala's interior minister dies in plane crash

Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:29pm EDT
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico, June 27 (Reuters) - Guatemala's interior minister was among those killed when a small plane crashed in bad weather north of the Guatemalan capital on Friday, a government spokesman said.

All four people on board the aircraft were killed, including Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez, Guatemala's presidential spokesman Fernando Barillas told reporters.

"Bad weather caused the accident," Barillas said.

The plane took off from Guatemala City bound for the northern jungle region of Peten, but crashed near the small town of Senahu, Barillas said.

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom was in Mexico for a regional summit. (Reporting by Luis Manuel Lopez, editing by Todd Eastham)


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