ElSalvador's military says the national police director, other high-ranking police officials and a fugitive banker were among nine people killed in a military helicoptercrash in a rural part of the country. The cause of the crash on Sunday night is under investigation. The Salvadoran armed forces said the Bell UH-1H helicoptercrashed on Sunday night, near San Eduardo in eastern ElSalvador. It is not clear how many people were aboard the helicopter when it crashed in Pasaquina district, close to the Honduran border. ElSalvador’s Police Chief Dies in HelicopterCrash.ElSalvador’s police director and a fugitive banker are among 9 dead in a helicoptercrash. Sep 9. The chief of ElSalvador’s national police, who played a key role in the government’s campaign to jail thousands of people as part of a crackdown on gang violence, has died in a helicoptercrash, the authorities said early Monday. The head of ElSalvador's police force and a man arrested on charges of a multi-million-dollar embezzlement were among the nine people killed when the military helicopter in which they were travelling crashed, authorities said on Monday. Nine people, including ElSalvador's police chief and a man accused of multi-million-dollar embezzlement, died in a military helicoptercrash. The incident occurred in Pasaquina, near the Honduran border. SAN SALVADOR — ElSalvador’s police chief, the leader of the country’s “war” on gangs, was killed in a helicoptercrash while bringing home a fugitive, the army said Monday. Seven people died, including a couple whose daughter had just been murdered, when a helicoptercrashed into coffee fields in western ElSalvador on Wednesday. The military had sent the helicopter to neighbouring Guatemala to evacuate former Salvadoran Air Force pilot Jose Eduardo... The head of ElSalvador's police forces and a man accused of a multi-million dollar embezzlement were killed when the military helicopter in which they were travelling crashed on Sunday night, the government said. Title: 5 Aboard a U.S. Helicopter Die in a Crash in ElSalvador. New York Times New York, N.Y.: . pg. A10, 1 pgs. Here is the article preview (Document Summary). ?SAN SALVADOR, Feb.
