A private airplane crashed in a remote mountainous area in northern Mexico over the weekend, killing all the 13 people on board, authorities said on Monday.
Authorities had been searching for the plane "Challenger 601" since communication was lost on Sunday afternoon, as the aircraft was passing through Coahuila on the way to the northern Mexican city of Monterrey from the U.S. city of Las Vegas.
Francisco Martinez, deputy secretary of Coahuila's civil protection, said in a televised interview that authorities had located the lost aircraft around 305 km to the northwest of the city of Monclova and that rescue brigades had been mobilized to search for the victims.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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