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Mexican interior minister Francisco Blake Mora died along with seven others in a helicopter crash in Xochimilco in southern Mexico City Friday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.
The Secretaria de Gobiernation (SEGOB) was travelling to from Mexico City to Cuernavaca, Morelos. He was scheduledto meet with some presecutors.
Blake Mora is Mexican president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa's second interior minister and the second to die in an air crash. Blake Mora's predecessor, Juan Camilo Mouriño, also died in an air crash in Mexico City on November 4th, 2008 only an hour after leaving an airport in San Luis Potosi state. A former drug prosecutor, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, were amongst the nine individuals who died in the 2008 crash.
Amongst thsoe killed in Friday's crash were SEGOB undersecretary Felipe Zamora Castro, coordinator of social communications, José Alfredo GarcÃa Medina, and Aiton Miriam Sanchez- a technical secretary of SEGOB.
Military personnel killed in the crash included Lieutenant Colonel Felipe Facio Cortez, Lieutenant Pedro Ramon Escobar Becerra and Second Sergeant Jorge Luis Juarez Gomez. All were in the Mexican Air Force. 
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