US aid volunteers die in Mexico plane crash

Tijuana (Mexico), Sept 9: Two US medical volunteers and their pilot died when the small plane in which they were traveling crashed near Mexico's border with the United States, a police spokesman said.

A Mexican police spokesman said the plane blew up yesterday on impact with a factory wall near the Mexican city of Ensenada, killing the pilot and his two passengers, a doctor and a nurse heading further south to provide voluntary medical assistance in the town of San Quintin.

They were part of a two-plane convoy of Christian missionaries from Brownfield, California, the spokesman said, adding that a technical fault was likely to blame for the crash.

REUTERS