Two Mexicans die after drug plane crashes in Venezuela

VENEZUELA.- Two Mexicans died in the crash of a small plane in Venezuela that, according to the Government, They used it for drug trafficking.

Venezuelan authorities indicated on X, formerly Twitter, that commissions from the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and the citizen security forces located this “crashed aircraft, used for illicit drug trafficking.”

“Two victims were found dead in the accident. The relevant bodies are continuing to investigate the case,” added the Ministry of Interior and Justice, which shared some photographs of the plane.

For his part, the Minister of Interior and Justice, Remigio Ceballos, explained – on the same social network – that the aircraft was operating “clandestinely for the international trafficking of narcotic and psychotropic substances.”

The official did not offer further details about the victims, so the sex or age of both is unknown.

The country’s security forces regularly report cases of planes intercepted and disabled due to their links to drug trafficking, without providing details about the fate of the crew.

In June of last year, the Venezuelan Armed Forces They shot down an aircraft coming from Cozumel, Mexicobound for Curaçao, which presumably entered the airspace of that country illegally, as it did not have the corresponding permit, and was therefore declared “hostile”.

Read: A small plane crashes into the sea off Cozumel (PHOTOS)

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